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ARTICLES
Just What Do You Mean : Born Again?
Rhodesia: Why No Peace Is in Sight
The Majority: Uncommitted, Unconcerned and Unaware
A Tale of Two Prophets
A Personal Letter from Herbert W. Armstrong
Telling of His Visit to Southern Africa
Human Survival:
Living in the Shadow of Worldwide Famine
FEATURES
Personal from Herbert W. Armstrong
TV-Radio Log
In Br ief
Garner Ted Armstrong Speaks Out!
February 1977
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I
t seems ve ry possib le God has once
again reveal ed somet hi ng NEW to
us, a nd important.
Act ually th e TRUTH - which has
become th e accepted a nd officia l
teaching of thi s Church - started
under most unusual conditions. This
is GOD'S Church, and it, in thi s
present era, rose up in t his world
wh ose God is (though the world is
deceived into ignorance of it) Satan
the devil. It is like a sprout of GOOD
wheat sprouting up among thorns,
thistles, and briers.
We are not "j us t another denomi-
nation." It is true that numerous de-
nominations do teach some things
as we do - but they have only the
branches and the twigs of the tree.
How many of them have the real
TRUNK OF THE TREE - with its MAIN
BRANCHES?
In ot her wo rds, how many of
th em kn ow wh at spirit ua l sa lvation
really is, wh at the KI NGDOM OF
G OD (Chr ist's whol e Gosp el) really
is, WHY God put humanity here on
ea r th: WHAT is our real ultimate
human POTENTIAL, or HOW we shall
reach it? How many kn ow G OD' S
PURPOSE, or Hi s MASTER PLAN for
wo rki ng it out? Or kn ow why we a re
here, where we a re going, or THE
WAY? Those are th e BIG MAIN
branches of the tree of kn owledge.
They are th e MISSING DIMENSION in
kn owled ge.
So we are utt erly UNLI KEany other
church!
I person all y was DUMBFOUNDED
when I di scovered, late in 1926, that
my Protest ant Sunday schoo l teach-
ing had be en th e VERY OPPOSITE of
what the Bibl e SAYS. I have been
shocked beyond me asu re to find
th at huma nity, incl ud ing those in
Christiani ty, or a ll reli gion s in ge n-
era l - a nd wit h VERY infinite simally
FEW exceptions ~ really do NOT BE-
LIEVE WHAT G ODSAYS.
Adam and Eve listened as God
first instructed them - reveal ed
knowledge a nd truth to th em in th e
GARDEN OF EDEN. But THEY DID
NOT BELI EVE WHAT HE SAID. In-
stead, they beli eved wh at Satan
sa id. Shocking? You don't believe
th at sta tement? Open your Bibl e
and read it for yo urself! Or, are YOU
willi ng to believe wh at Christ SAYS
there? For He is the personal WORD
OF GOD, and the Bibl e is Hi s Word
The PLAIN TRUTH February 1977
in wntmg - the written WORD OF
G OD. I BELI EVE what it says, for it is
what CHRISTsays!
Jesus came over 1,900 yea rs ago
with a vita l MESSAGE from God -
but after 3Y2years of preaching it to
hundreds of thousands, only 120
st ill BELI EVED WHAT HE SAID (Ac ts
I : 15). I do BELI EVEwhat He says!
Let me tell you how it ca me
a bout.
As the a pos tle Paul wa s traveling
th e OPPOSITE WAY from GOD' S wa y
until God st ru ck him down and re -
vea led Christ's TRUTH to him, so
was I putting my whole heart
into business - unconcerned abo ut
God or Hi s TRUTH. This is how
GOD turned me a round, opened
my mind, poured Hi s TRUTH into
it.
He used the wife of my youth in
my conver sion. He opened her mind
to th e TRUTH of Hi s Sabbath. This
was like a bolt of lightning to me -
only the bolt STRUCK ME stra ight
through! To me it was religious fa-
naticism! At the same time I wa s
cha llenged by a sist er-in-law into an
angry but diligent a nd thorough
study and research into the theory
of EVOLUTION as oppos ed to cre-
a t ion by the Creator God. Both
caused me to study Genesis. Of
co urse I studi ed eve rything I could
get hold of on Darwinism a nd evo-
luti on - th e works of Hu xley, Hae-
c k e l , Ly el l, Sp en c er. Vog ht,
Chambe rl in, etc., etc.
I began to see that my ch ildhood
Pro testant teaching was th e or-eo-
SITE of biblical teaching. My inten-
sive study into science and the Bible
PROVED th e exis tence of God, a nd
th e ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY of th e
Bible as His WORD - Hi s reveal ed
KNOWLEDGE to man.
I remember wh at a shock it was to
r ead in Romans 6:23 th at THE
WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, whe n in a
Pr otestant Sunday school I ha d
been taught the wages - or wha t we
go t paid - for SIN was ETERNAL LIFE
in a n ever-burning hellfire - tha t I
would burn and burn forever , yet
never come to be burned up . I was
eq ually shocked to read th e last pa rt
of the sa me sentence - but the gift
of God is ETERNAL LIFE through
Jesus Christ our Lord. I did not
kn ow eternal life had to be rec ei ved
as a GIFT - I was taught that I
already had eternal life - I was an
IMMORTAL SOUL.
To make a long story sho rt. th e
first six months of thi s dili gent, a l-
'mos t night and day STUDY IN
(Continued on page 17)
JUST WHATDOYOUMEAN:
?
Just what is a "born-again" Christian? Don't be too sure you know! Many -
. .
perhaps millions - sincerely believe they have been "born again" - yet
do not understand what Jesus meant when He used those words.
by Herbert W. Armstrong
W
HY d id th e Pha ri se e ,
Nicode mus, unders t and
whe n Jesus said to him: "Ex-
cept a man be born agai n, he ca nno t
see the kingdom of God "?
WHY do peop le not unde rstand
those words today?
How MANY know, today, that
Je sus' Gospel was a sensa tional,
n eve r - b efo r e proclaimed NEWS
ANNOUNCEMENT?
Jesus Was a Newscaster
Those in Judea knew - or should
have known - Malachi's prophecy
concern ing thi s. It wa s the Gospel of
God .: and the word " gos pel"
me ans GOODNEWS!
Je sus was a NEWSCASTER. Hi s
ne ws was something a bsolutely NEW
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- never before proclaimed to man-
kind. It was the most wonderful
NEWS ever reported. Actually almost
too wonderful for humans to be-
lieve. It was news of the utterly tran-
scendent potential of man.
A humor columnist wrote a bit
on the news printed in da ily news-
papers. It is actually NOT news , he
insisted, since it is a reporting of
events th at already have happened..
Therefore it is no longer NEW, but
OLD when printed. He insist ed it
really ought to be called OLDS!
The tremendous Message that
Jesus brought was NEWS! It was not
a report of past events. It was AD-
YANCE news! - news of an almost
unbelievable UTOPIAN WORLD TO-
MORROW!
And it is SURE!
And it was news that we may be
BORN AGAIN! Yet almost nobody
understands it!
How MANY; even today, kn ow
that Je sus' Gospel was actually so
BREATHTAKI NG - so seemingly in-
credible. so startling, it should have
left its hearers in a daze of awe! It
didn't. WHY?
WHY has it never been recognized
by the world as th e stupendou s
NEWS that it actu all y was?
Simply becau se the leaders in
Judea rejected it - hated it - hated
Jesus for announcing the wonderful
great news - turned most of t he
people against it. And it has been so
MIsrepresented, so di storted and
maligned, that the whole world has
been deceived - and has totally
MISUNDERSTOOD IT! Your Bible says
the WHOLE WORLD - all nations -
have been deceived about that Gos-
pel!
The time was at hand, then, for
this Message to be announced! The
time is at hand, today, for its true
MEANING to be made so PLAIN that
people may UNDERSTAND IT!
It WILL BE, in this article. And it is
a crucial CHALLENGE to you who
now read it!
And you have to UNDERSTAND
what was that news announcement,
or you can never UNDERSTAND what
Jesus meant about being "born
again."
What Was the News?
Notice, briefly, first, what that as-
tonishing NEW Message was!
The pre-announcement, in Ma-
lachi's prophecy, says: "Behold. I
will send my messenger, and he
shall prepare the way before me:
and the Lord, whom ye seek [the
Messiah], shall suddenly come to his
temple, even the Messenger of the
covenant ..." (Mal. 3: I).
Now notice the beginning of the
Messenger's proclamation of that
Message.
It is recorded in Mark's Gospel.
chapter I: "The beginning of the
gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of
God; as it is written in the proph-
ets ...." Then follows the citation
from Malachi, written above. That
is followed by the account of John
the Baptist, preparing the way be-
fore Christ, the Messenger.
Then, verses 14-15: "Now after
that John was put in prison, Jesus
came into Galilee, preaching the
gospel of the KINGDOM OF GOD,
and saying, The time is fulfilled, and
the Kingdom of God is at hand:
repent ye, and believe the gospel."
That is, BELIEVE the Good News!
What IS the Kingdom of God?
What did He mean - the Kingdom
of God?
Jesus' whole Message - His Gos-
pel - was about the KINGDOM OF
GOD! Yet few know anything about
it, today.
Do you know WHY?
Jesus' Gospel - His news AN-
NOUNCEMENT of the Kingdom of
God - was SUPPRESSED during the
very first century!
Paul wrote to the Christians in
Galatia: "I marvel that ye are so
soon removed from him that called
you into the grace of Christ UNTO
ANOTHER GOSPEL: which is not an-
other; but there be some that
trouble you, and WOULD PERVERT
the gospel of Christ ..." (Gal. 1:6-7;
see also II Cor. II :3-4 and Rom.
I: 18, where "hold" should be trans-
lated "hold back" or "suppress" as
in some translations).
The MESSAGE God sent to man-
kind by Jesus Christ - His GOSPEL
- His GOOD NEWS ANNOUNCEMENT
- was not proclaimed to the world
after about 70 A.D.
Jesus was born to be a KING. His
Message was the coming KINGDOM
OFGOD.
A kingdom is a). a NATION com-
posed of people, and b), the GOV-
ERNMENT of the nation.
In some cases, the people of a
nation are the descendants - the
children - of one man. The nation
of Turkey is the descendants of the
ancient Esau, twin brother of Jacob,
whose name was changed to Israel,
father of the nation Israel. Before
the twins were born, God said to
their mother, Rebekah, "Two na-
tions are in thy womb . . ." (Gen.
25:23).
Now Jesus the Messiah was to
come as "the Messenger of the cov-
ENANT." The "Old Covenant" had
established the human children of
Israel as a NATION or KINGDOM of
humans, called the . KINGDOM OF
ISRAEL. Jesus came as the Messen-
ger - heralding the Message of the
NEW Covenant that shall set up the
spirit-composed children of GOD as
the Kingdom of God!
As the ancient Kingdom of Israel
was composed of the human FAMILY
of the human man Israel. so the
Kingdom of God will be composed
of the divine family of the divine
GOD!
And what does this have to do
with "being BORN AGAIN"? It has
everything to do with it!
The prophet Daniel wrote of this
Kingdom of God. In his second
chapter, after foretelling of the
Chaldean Empire (Babylon), the
Persian Empire, the Graeco-Mace-
donian Empire with its four divi-
sions, and the Roman Em pire,
stretching even into the now-form-
ing resurrected "Holy Roman Em-
pire" in Europe, we read the
following: "And in the days of these
kings [the forthcoming United Na-
tions of Europe] shall the God of
heaven set up a kingdom, ' which
shall never be destroyed .. . but it
shall break in pieces and consume
all these kingdoms, and it shall
stand forever" (Dan. 2:44). To
"stand forever" it will, of necessity,
be a Kingdom of IMMORTALS, not
mortals.
It will be a WORLD-RULING King-
dom!
Daniel's seventh chapter portrays
it again - and shows the connection
with being "born again." The four
world empires - Babylon through
Rome and its coming resurrection in
Europe - are pictured as four beasts
- wild animals.
Saints Become Immortal
Verse 17: "These great beasts, which
are four, are four kings [kingdoms],
which shall arise out of the earth.
But the saints of the most High shall
take the kingdom, and possess the
kingdom forever; even for ever and
ever." To possess it FOR EVER, the
. saints will have to be IMMORTAL!
Then the Babylonian resurrection
in Europe "made war with the
saints, and prevailed against them;
until the Ancient of days [Christ at
second coming] came, and judgment
was given to the saints of the Most
High; and the time came that the
saints possessed the kingdom" (ver-
ses 21-22). Read also verse 27.
The second coming of Christ is
described thus: "And the seventh
angel sounded; and there were great
voices in heaven, saying, The king-
doms of this world are become the
kingdoms of our Lord, and of his
Christ; and he shall reign for ever '
and ever" (Rev. 11:15).
Yet in spite of these and many
more such scriptures, many de-
ceived theologians today mislead
the people saying that the CHURCH
is the Kingdom of God! Or, that
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A RHODESIAN GUARD FORCE sentry surveys guerrill a-infested territory from the obse rvation pos t in the center of a
"prot ected vill age" in a tribal trust lands region.
R H O D E S I ~
WHYNOPEACE IS IN SIGHT by Gene H. Hogberg
T
he Geneva Conference on Rho-
desia has adjourned. its dele-
gates locked in a stalemate over
how to arrive at a formula for
achieving a peaceful transition to
black rule .
Meanwhile the Soviet Union is
stepping up its military aid to guer-
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rillas who aim to "liberate" the
country by force of arms. American
intelligence sources report that Rus-
sian ships have recently been un-
The author recently toured southern
Africa. This is the second in a series of
exclusive reports.
loading additional tons of ammuni-
tion and other materiel in the ports
of Tanzania and Mozambique.
The same sources also have been
informed that about 5.000 Rhode-
sian guerri llas have been moving
gradually from Mozambique to
camps in Tanzania for training.
/
Mozambique. Ta nza nia and ot her
black Africa n countries have openly
declared their intention to support
guerri lla operations ai med at top-
pling the white gove rnment of Rho-
desia.
On the Scene in Salisbury
For an altogether too brief and illu-
sory moment. it appeared. last Sep-
tember. that peace might break ou t
in Rhodesia; that the four-yea r-old
fight against militant nationalist
guerrillas would cease; that a peace-
ful. orderly 'transition to a black ma-
jority government could take place.
Swallowing the bitterest pill of his
political career. Rhodesia's Prime
Minister Ian Smith. under intense
outside pressure. accepted U.S. Sec-
retary of State Henry Kissinger's set-
tlement formula. Against his better
judgment - knowing full well that the
nationalist opposition was hopelessly
divided, that an Angola-style civil
war between the contending forces
could erupt catching both whites and
black moderates in the middle. lead-
ing to massive white flight - he ac-
cepted the Kissinger plan. with its
supposed safeguards to prevent such
chaos from occurring.
I was in Salisbury, Rhodesia' s
pleasant capital city. the day Mr.
Smith and his cabinet made their
monumental decision. Along with
about 50 other newspaper and tele-
vision reporters from around the
world. I stood outside Rhodesia's
parliament building in the late af-
ternoon hours of September 24.
Everyone sensed the gravity of
the decision that was being ago-
nized over inside the unpretentious
structure fronting Cecil Square -
named after Rhodesia's founder.
Cecil Rhodes. At issue was the
acceptance or rejection of Dr. Kiss-
inger's settlement formu la. Essen-
tiall y. it called for a two-year
transitional government for Rho-
desi a. which would. in turn. prepare
the way for turning the reins of gov-
ernment over to leaders represent-
ing Rhodesia's blacks. who out-
number whites by a 20-to-1 ratio.
The deliberations inside were pro-
longed and undoubtedly intense.
When Mr. Smith finally appeared,
an hour after sundown. the swarm-
ing newsmen did their best to get
the story. But to all questions the
never-ruffled Prime Minister had
but one answer: the government's
decision would be announced at
8:00 p.m. the following evening in a
major address to be broadcast a nd
telecast to the Rhodesian people.
All the next day , and increasingly
more so as the time neared for Mr.
Smith's address to the nation. the
atmosphere in Salisbury seemed
heavy wit h expectation. Shoppers
on the stree ts seemed preoccupied.
Diners in the Monomatapa Hotel.
where I was staying. hurried
through their meals in order to get
to a television set in time for the
history-making event. I returned to
my room and its black-and-white.
one channel set.
When the moment fina lly arrived,
RHODESIAN PRIME MINISTER Ian
Smith talks to newsmen after his
cabinet conditiona ll y "accepted ma-
j ori ty rule plan.
Mr. Smith said what all his country-
men knew - or feared. dependi ng
upon one's political out look - he
would say: that the II -year-Iong
period of self-declared indepen-
dence under white rule was at an
end; that the free world was not
going to give Rhodesia any more
support. even of a sub rosa nature;
that the time was now to try to se-
cure the best political deal with
hopefully moderate black leaders in
order to keep Rhodesia in the West-
ern camp. free from communist
domination.
No Alternatives Available
In his broadcast, Mr. Smith recalled
his recent series of meetings in Pre-
tor ia wit h the South African Prime
Minis ter Mr. Vorster and with Dr.
Kissinger. He said that at these
meetings it was made "abundantly
clear" to him and his government
that as long as the present circum-
stances in Rhodesia prevailed they
could expect "no help or support of
any kind from the free world."
Mr. Smith sa id his government.
therefore. had no alternative but to
accept the settlement plan as pro-
posed in Pretoria. He stressed.
however. that his government's ac-
ceptance was conditionally based on
two assurances from both the Amer-
icans and the British : I) that terror-
ism on Rhodesia's borderlands
would cease, and 2) that United
Nations sanctions against the belea-
guered country would be lifted,
once again permitting unrestricted
trade between Rhodesia and the
world and allowing for the infu-
sion of badly needed foreign
capital.
To those who heard Mr. Smith
that evening. there were no "ifs, ands
or buts ." His government. he told
viewers, accepted at face value the
Kissinger plan. The same plan. he
himself was told. had been agreed to
by the leaders of the so-called
"front-line" black states - Angola.
Mozambique. Tanzania. Zambia
and Botswana.
A "TWO-Day High"
For a day or two in Salisbury. the
political atmosphere could be best
described as reserved opti mi sm.
Perhaps. just perhaps, things might
work out. "Dr. K" appeared to have
pulled another miracle out of his
dip lomatic hat.
The newspaper Sunday Mail was
full of hope for the future. The end
to sanctions, speculated some of its
economists. could produce an eco-
nomic boom. In fact. the biggest
problem might be a sudden out-
burst of inflation. At last, obsoles-
cent machinery in Rhodesia's
factories could be replaced instead
of being patched up with home-
made parts. .
A cartoon on the editorial page
showed how the end to sanctions
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R H O D E S I ~ S
ORDEAL
F
or over four years Rhodesian
security forces have been
fighting an ever-widening anti-
guerri lla campaign in the country's
border regions . The past year saw a
sharp escalation in violence ; nearly
1,200 guerri llas were killed in 1976
as opposed to 720 for the previous
three years. Rhodesia's military
services lost over 130 men in 1976
compa red to 75 up until last year.
Morale among the servicemen , both
blacks and whites (left) is still high,
but the price they are paying
(funeral, bottom right) is a costl y
one as months go by without a
peacef ul settlement. Others, too,
pay a price. Bodi ly muti lation of
rural blacks by terrorists is not
uncommon. Man, right, probably
informed government officials of
local guerr illa activity. In a sense,
he was lucky; others have had thei r
lips chopped off as well. Blacks in
the ' 'operational areas" have had to
be relocated in fenced -off " PV' s"
or protected villages, which are
guarded day and night (bottom
left). Striking from bases in
Mozambique or Zambia, terror ists
exact toll in property also, such as
this train (top right ) on the vital rail
link to South Africa . Raids on
guerrilla camps often net sizable
caches of Russian A-47 rifles and
other commu nist-supp lied
armaments .
Photo credit s, clockwise, beginning lower left:
Michael Evans. Michael Evans, Rod Ej a. Alan Reininger.
Alan Reininger, Michael Evans. All from Contact.
DESPITE TERRORISM, tradi tional life goes on for Rhodesia's rural Mashona people. Inside a " protected village," a new
storage bi n for maize is erected, while a cluster of children giggle at the photographer.
could benefit the long-suffering
Rhodesian consumer : He might be
able to drive his l2-year- old Ameri-
can car (hopefully replaced soon
with a new import) into a petrol
station and say, "Fi ll 'er up!" . . . He
might be a ble to at last repl ace his
lO-yea r-old razor blades . . . be able
to travel wit ho ut currency dis-
tinctions . .. and at last hear the
" patte r of feet belonging to foreign
businessmen."
Business would profit from an-
othe r angl e. too. With an end to
terrorism - one of the conditions of
Mr. Smith's acceptance - no longer
would Rhodesia's young men be
called away from their jobs five or
six times a year for extended tou rs
of duty in the country' s "operational
areas" searching out guerrilla units
flowing across the borders from Mo-
zambique and Zambi a.
This was indeed good news - if it
were true.
Torpedoed by Moscow
The Kissinger plan, however, didn't
make it through the weekend.
What has followed sinc e th at
night of September 25 is but an-
ot her cha pter of the sorry, sordid
state of affairs in contemporary Af-
rica. First the "front-line" presi-
dent s. in a pronouncement from
Lusaka. Zambia. claimed they never
saw the fina l settlement Smith
agre ed to - and wouldn' t have ap-
proved it if they had .
Politi cal ana lysts generally dis-
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count their disavowal. Most likel y
the Soviet Uni on, through Presi-
dents Net o and Machel (of the new
Marxi st-or iented states of Angola
and Mozambique. respectively) .
pressured the black states into
abruptly changing their minds.
Ever since the Kremlin doused
the flickering flame of peace. Rho-
desia' s plight has gone from bad to
worse. The front-line states and rep-
resentatives of Rh odesia' s four
black nat ionalist organizations de-
manded the convening of a confer-
ence at the European headquarters
of the Uni ted Nations in Ge neva.
Switzerland. to sett le t he issue.
Smi th reluctantly agreed - stating
that he would be attending only to
implement the Kissinger plan. not
to negot iat e the pack age anew.
Nationalists Ripped by Dissension
Even if progress of a sort is reached
in Geneva. genuine peace is by no
means around the corner. On the
nationalis t side. there are deep divi -
sions , which have been merel y
papered over. and which will reap-
pear as wide as ever once the Ge-
neva formalities are dispensed with .
To begin with, there is that curious.
"patriot ic-front" coalition between
Joshua Nkorno, long-time "moder-
ate" who says he supports a capital-
ist system for Zimbabwe (the
nationali st' s name for Rhodesi a),
and Robert Mug abe , who claims
that a future Zimbabwe must "fol-
low socialist prin ciples" and "assault
capit alist and bourgeois tend en- ~
cies." The Nkomo-Mugabe mar- ~
riage of convenience is opposed by
two other groups, the first headed ~
by Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who has I
considerable popul ar support. a nd ~
-g,
the second headed by Ndabaningi ;g
Sith ole, formerl y Muzorewa' s chi ef ~
lieutenant. ~
The intense nat ional ist rivalr y has ~
erupted peri od icall y in violence. ~
with the bloody slaughter of guerril- 0..
las bel onging to one group by those
loyal to another faction.
Th e Ca pe Town. South Africa.
newspaper Die Burger notes tha t the
factio us na tionalist movemen t is
further complicated by ancient tri-
balloyalti es:
"The di scord and strife among
the black people is an import ant as-
pect of the Rh odesi an probl em
which is not taken into consid-
eration seriously enough. especially
by the outside world. Even if the
whites of Rhodesia could be wished
away, it would not ensure that a
solut ion would be found . Possibly
rather the contrary. for then the
strife between the black groups. who
have already so clearl y indi cates!
their bitter animosity towards one
another. could be intensified.
"On the one hand there are men
such as Mr . Joshua Nkorno, who is
supported ma inly by the Mat abeles
and who leans over towards the caP:
italist system. a nd on the other han d
there is the Rev. Sith ole who is sup-
ported mainly by the Shona-speak-
VARIED FACES OF RHODESIA - Nationalist leader, Joshua Nkomo, left, ponders his role in a future " Zimbabwe."
What role is left for country's 270,000 whi tes, outnumbered by 6,000,000 blacks, is biggest question of all.
ing people and who leans over far to
the other side. The division and
strife between them strongly remind
one of the situation in Angola at the
time of independence in that coun-
try. It is among other things to
counteract a development similar to
that in Angola that it is considered
so vitally important to keep as many
whites as possible in Rhodesia . As
things stand at present , a stabilizing
influence can come on ly from
them."
Unpalatable Truth
That last phrase - that only the
whites can act as a stabilizing in-
fluence - is an extremely hard one
for many peopleto face today. Nev-
ertheless, it is a fact that in 'Rho-
desia, as elsewhere in Africa, it was
the white Europeans who not only
introduced progressive civilization
but eliminated two scourges which
had ravaged the native African
peoples: disease and tribal war-
fare.
In 1890 when Rhodes' pioneer
columns first arrived in what is now
Rhodesia, the region was inhabited
by no more than one million people.
Today, according to Lewis H. Gann
of Stanford University's Hoover In-
stitute: "Rhodesia's African popu-
lation amounts to 6 million and
keeps expanding at a rapid rate that
hardly bespeaks grinding oppres-
sion, much less genocide. Within the
lifetime of a single grandmother, the
country was propelled from the
The PLAINTRUTH February 1977
early Iron Age to the age of modern
industry. In terms of health service,
life expectancy, education, use of
consumer goods, and agricultural
production, t he condition of the in-
digenous peopl e has improved in a
manner t hat would have been in-
conceivable to an ancient Shona
king.
" By African sta ndards," continues
Gann in t he summe r 1976 issue of
Orbis, "the Rh odesian economy is
reasonably balanced. The country's
farmers, especially the wh ite entre-
preneurs, are reasonably efficient.
Rhodesia, a country as large as Cali-
fornia , can feed herself and even
produces a food surplus for export.
How many 'progressive' nations can
make that claim? Its mining sector
has grown. Manufacturing, too, has
made much progress and now ac-
counts for a somewhat larger share
of the GNP than farming and min -
ing together."
Adds the Natal Witness of Dur-
ban: "It is a simple, irrefutable his-
torical fact that 80 years of white
rule in Rhodesia have been, on the
whole and in any measurable terms,
beneficial to the whole population.
On one hand, as black leaders are
quick to observe, the white popu-
lation has enjoyed an enviably high
standard of living, but, on the other
hand, there can be little doubt that
the black, miserably poor though he
may be in far too many cases, is
substantially better off in health, in
security, and even in numbers tha n
he would have been without the <;
s
white man's presence." a
o
Far from being oppressed, some I
of the Zimba bwean nationalist lead- ~
~
ers , during periods of incarceration UJ
..
for illegal poli tical activities, have ~
.\1
actually been able to obtain ad- ::;
vanced university degrees by corre- ~
spondence ! (One of the degrees was t3
granted by the Universi ty of South ~
Africa, in that supposed citadel of (5
I
oppression.) Such treatment is in :;;
ma rked contrast to the deliberate . ~
disfigurement of victims meted out
by some of the guerrillas today - .
the lopping off of ears, lips , noses, ~
and other much marks of incivility. .!'
(The victims are almost all black.)
The Birthright Blessing
The truth is, the prosperity enjoyed
by Rhodesia's whites has not been
gained at the expense of, or through
the "oppression" of their far more
numerous black countrymen. Hard
work, the entrepreneurial spirit. the
ability of the European mentally to
adapt to the modern industrial
world as opposed to the approach of
the average African still attuned to
traditional tribal customs and ways
of doing things is in large part re-
sponsible for the large white-black
prosperity gap. But there is another,
even more important reason for the
prosperity Rhodesians ha ve here-
tofore enjoyed.
Rhodesia's whites, like English-
speaking Anglo-Saxons everywhere
else, have been the beneficiaries of a
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unique blessing, one not earned, in
the final analysis, even by the stint
of their own efforts. They have been
the recipients, strange as it may
seem, of the birthright blessings
conferred upon them by a distant
biblical ancestor - the patriarch
Abraham. (To understand this all-
important subject, write for our free
booklet The United States and the
British Commonwealth in Prophecy.
It will open your eyes as to the real
reason why the English-speaking
world is having its troubles today.)
Rhodesia's blacks have - to the
limits of their own cultural back-
grounds - benefited from this birth-
right blessing as well. The proof of
this is the greater standard of living
they have enjoyed in comparison
with the inhabitants of most of Af-
rica's black-ruled states.
Majority Rule - No Such Thing
In this light , it is sheer folly to think
that conditions will be any better for
the black man under a "majority-
rule" government - simply because
the term "majority rule" in the Afri-
can context is also sheer folly.
Dr. Ernest Lefever, a Senior Fel-
low at the Brookings Institution in
Washington D.C and the author of
several books on Africa, wrote in the
Wall Street Journal on June 2, 1976:
" Despite screaming headlines to
the contrary, we persist in our illu-
sions about what is politically
possible in tropical Africa. Dr. Kiss-
inger implies that somehow Rho-
desia could move quickly from
'minority rule' to 'majority rule ' and
that after this transition 'minority
rights' would be respected. The rec-
ord of the last 15 years does not
sustain this hope."
The record? According to the
1976 Freedom House worldwide
survey of political freedom, of the
37 black African states, three (Bot-
swana, Gambia and Mauritius)
have democratic political and civil
rights, while II are "partly free"
and 23 are "not free," that is, they
enjoy virtually no political or civil
rights .
The popular base of the ruling
elites of many of these states is often
far smaller than that of the ruling
minority in Rhodesia - often com-
prising a mere handful of men of
one tribe or sub-tribal group. But
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such black minority regimes are not
condemned by either the politicians
or the news media of the Western
world.
Dr. Lefever perhaps exposes a
raw nerve when he adds :
"The Rhodesian government is
not condemned because it rests on a
narrow base - all other African re-
gimes do - but because that base is
predominantly white in an over-
whelmingly black country. It makes
little difference whether the Rhode-
sian regime is more democratic, rep-
resentative, and humane than many
black regimes or that it operates by
the rule of law, permits and re-
sponds to opposition groups, has a
relatively free press, is constrained
by its limited electorate, and is at-
tempting to broaden political parti-
cipation - attributes rarely present
in black African countries. It even
makes little difference whether there
are greater educational and eco-
nomic opportunities than in some
black countries. What matters is
race, as though the colour of skin
had some intrinsic relationship to
basic human rights. "
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Uncertain Future
Rhodesians deserve a chance to
work out their own solutions, free of
communist-supported "liberators"
and misguided pronouncements
from the West. Prime Minister
Smith has committed himself to ma-
jority rule - "responsible" majority
rule. There is no turning back now.
If the self-a ppointed na tionalist
leaders can't agree on a future
course of action, Smith is ready, he
says, to work with other representa-
tives of Rhodesia's black peoples
willing to cooperate in constructing
a peaceable future for the country.
Smith also claims that he had
been assured by both Henry Kiss-
inger and South Africa's Prime
Minister John Vorster that his coun-
try would receive outside aid if the
Geneva talks broke down "because
of the fault of the black politi-
cians . . . and definitely not the fault
of myself and my government."
He did not elaborate on what the
aid would be, but apparently re-
ferred to, as a minimum, the lifting
of international sanctions against
Rhodesia. Greater access to West-
ern arms was also a veiled implica-
tion, since he emphasized th at
Rhodesia with but a little help could
still handle the badly split guerrillas
- providing there is no all-out
Russo-Cuban intervention.
The Rhodesian crisis won't go
away quietly. It is destined to re-
main front-page news for quite
some time. At this moment. there is
no peaceful light at the end of the
tunnel.
At thi s juncture the Geneva con-
ference appears to be a total failure,
leaving. at least for now, only the
crucible of war. The impact upon
the United States, Great Britain -
a nd perhaps more importantl y.
neighboring South Africa - of in-
tensified guerrilla activity supported
by Soviet arms remains to be seen.
Nevertheless, it is an extremely dan-
gerous situation.
All of which is a pity. for Rhodesia
is one of the most pleasant - and
despite the current difficulties -
peaceful countries to live in anywhere
in the world; a country in which there
remains a tremendous reservoir of
good will and cooperation between
blacks and whites. It would be a
shame to see it all end in disaster. 0
THE MAJORITY:
UNCOMMITIEQ
UNCONCERNED
AND
UNAWARE
by Garner Ted Armstrong
It' s crazy time. Alarm and apathy shouldn't mix, nor "Christian gunmen, JJ but they do. Today, when
awesome world events demand urgent action, when frightening trends in conditions demand the
soberest contemplation, when violence, kidnappings, assassinations, murders, civil wars,
hijackings, and the toppling of governments should cause the deepest introspection, the millions
doze. Famine with flatulence, emergency with ease, crisis without concern: none really mix. Yet
they prevail. What about you? Would you go to a poker game in a burning house? Swim in a
typhoon? Fly serenely into a thunderstorm? Walk lazily through a mine field? Liberally lace your
scotch with arsenic? Lie down to sleep on a sinking ship? It's time you wondered about the
paradox of apathy in a time demanding total commitment.
F
ew hum ans are trul y aware. Oh ,
we become sensitized to the little
things - things that affect our
daily lives in some important way -
like joblessness. low wages, high
taxes. soaring insurance rates , or
gun control. But very few seem ca-
pable of comparing potential Arab
oil embargoes with the price of
wheat in Canada; the transition Of
gove rnment in America to the
potential for war in Korea or Yugo- '
sla via : the incredible. yet under-
pla yed . litt le noticed, unpublicized
drought that has gripped Europe ,
Britain , Canada and the U.S. with
international rela tions and the price
of food. Nor are very many able, it
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see ms, to gra sp the rel ati onship of
any of the foregoing with Bible
prophecy !
Yet. according to the prophecies
in your Bible. you are living in the
last days of thi s present civi lization.
An age is about to end. A vast epic
is taking place - the decay and final
destruction of civilization as we
know it - and a new and different
age is soon to emerge which will be
utt erly different in every respec t to
this age . But milli ons upon millions
are unaware of the relati onshi p be-
tween pr esent world condi tions and
Bibl e prophecy!
For twent y long years on The
World Tomorrow program. I have
been referring repeatedly to Chris t's
pr ophecies found in Matthew 24. I
have continually sai d that wars and
rumors of wars would intensify on
the world scene. along with fam ine,
droughts, shortages . disease epide m-
ics, record -shatter ing ea rthqua kes,
an d all the pr ophesied eve nts lead -
ing to the "grea t tribul ati on" (Ma tt.
24:21-22). Take a quick look at this
world the way it really is.
A Sick, Sick World!
Growi ng civil anarchy - terrorism.
violence and crime - continues to
tear at the threads of Western civ-
ilizat ion. Twent y thousand murders
per yea r in the United States alone.
Th ese are the headl ines that rock
the world today.
The gr im events of Ente bbe
served to remind us that anti-Semi -
tism is far from dead in thi s world's
society. Blatant. unabashed. raw
racism is a sleeping time bomb
which threat ens to erupt anew.
Recently there have been vei led
threat s (" We will brin g down the
tem ple of human ity") by a smaller
powe r t o use the unt hink a bl e
wea pon if pushed into a corner. As
the United Stat es continues to foster
the proliferat ion of nuclear weap-
onry in the worl d (albei t through
the beneficent sprea d of " peaceful"
nuclear reactors). the number of na-
tions act ua lly possessing the bomb
increases year by yea r - whether we
have the courage to admi t it or not.
Mean while, Western ar ms pol-
icies continue to fuel the Middle
Eas t. America finds it necessary to
supply both side s of the fence with
supersophisticated weaponry. Take
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Ir an for exa mple. Rep orts The
Middle East magazine: " It [Iran)
now has 'o n orde r' 80 F-14 Tomc at s.
along with 190 Phantoms and 179
F.5E interceptor aircraft. Te hra n is
also attempting to obtain in oi l-for-
arms barter deals another 300 of the
lat est avai lable airc raft on the West-
ern market , including F-16s and F-
18s. . .. Besides these. there are re-
portedly another 1,500 Chieftai n
tanks 'o n orde r' from Britain" (Oc-
tob er 1976. p. 19). If cur rent or ders
are filled. combat airc raft levels in
Iran will be doubl ed. West and East
have been rushing arms into the
Middle Eas t at record rat es. The
spark is bound to be touched off
sooner or lat er. Those weapons will
no doubt be used.
The Energy Crunch
Militar ily spea king, the West con-
tinu es to sell advanced muniti ons to
countr ies that have thei r hands on
it s throat. As Fort une wa rned:
"Si nce the Yom Kippur Wa r. our
dependenc e on OP EC oi l has in-
creased from 17% to 22% of our
[American) domesti c production.
and ifpresent trends continue, we will
be buying nearly half of our oil from
OPEC countries by 1980" (Januar y
1976, p. 102).
Have Western nati ons been about
the business of encouraging con-
serva tion of unrenewabl e ene rgy re-
sources by, say. cutt ing back on the
use of "our toys"? Frankly, no! In
the U.S., Det roit is back to bui lding
more big gas hogs than ever.
The Fortune editorial continues:
"It almos t see ms as if we have set-
tled apa thetica lly for living indefi-
nitely at OP EC' s mercy. . . . If the
Ara bs were to unl imber their oil
wea pon aga inst countries support-
ing Israel, we could be left with the
op tion of ei ther givi ng in or tak ing
mil it a ry ac tion. Viewed aga inst
these ugly possibilities, the current
dit hering [inaction and lack of pol-
icy) looks like an abdication of the
nati onal interes t."
The pan ic per iod of the energy
crisis (lat e 1973 and early 1974) will
be paled into insignificance by the
next one, especia lly in the United
States. Can you imagine wha t it's
going to be like with our crude oil
fau cet turned fully halfway off'?
Already the re is a very real natu-
ral gas sho rtage in th e Unite d
St at es. No tes Business Week: "Each
year across the country. the shor tage
of natural gas worsens. concea led to
some exten t by the recent string of
wa rm winters ... but noneth eless
rea l and ever mor e threatening. In-
deed the gas shortage is in many
ways the lead ing edge of the real
' energy cr isis.' ... Accordi ng to fig-
ur es released last week by the Fed-
era l Power Commission. the nati on
thi s winter will suffer a 22% shortfa ll
in supplies. Last yea r the figure was
18%. Th e yea r befor e 14%" (Sep-
tember 27. 1976. p. 66).
The Time of the End
As I' ve sa id so many times before.
any way you want to slice it. this
world is headed int o a time of ind e-
scriba ble troubl es on a globa l sca le.
We are now living in what the Bibl e
ca lls "the time ofthe end. "
The end- time fulfillments of Mat-
thew 24 a re sha ping up very fast.
Th e time for procrastinat ion in pro-
claiming an urge nt warn ing and wit -
ness to the nat ions of this world is
over. We must fulfill our awesome
responsibil ity.
Yet pro phecy after pro phecy in
yo ur Bible wa rns us that at the time
when the second coming of Jesus
Christ would be immi nent. vast
numbers of God's own peop le
wo uld d rift i nto lethargy a nd
apa thy, sleepily going about their
own day-to-day affairs as if trying to
shove the unaccept able future int o
the back of their minds and pretend
ther e is unlimited time left for their
own personal pleasures.
It makes no sense at all for peopl e
in a burning bu ilding to be tellin g
j okes - or far mers given seve re
storm wa rni ngs to scatter thei r stock
to summe r pastures. Yet. as the
Bibl e pred icted. many today live
thei r. dai ly lives as if ob livious to the
deadly potential of these times!
Soon. a grea t depression that will
make the cras h of ' 29 look like a
picn ic by comparison will rock the
world. From any given moment na-
tion after nati on in the affl uent. in-
du str iali zed wor ld could plunge into
povert y - with banks failing and
closing, business and industry goi ng
bankrupt, and a barter system re-
pl acing pr esent economic systems.
Out of this will emerge growing
anarchy. racial bloodbaths. urban
wars. ga ng vio le n ce as armed
gro ups pi llage from their own coun-
trymen in a frenzied effort to sur-
vive . The collapse of prese nt
sys tems could take place in an y
given 90-day period following a
shocking failure of the economic
system. Living. as we do. in th e
shadow of the bomb and on the
verge of chaos - we st ill like to
pr eten d these shocking events will
no t. no. cannot, occur. We some how
convi nce ourselves all will be well -
the re's no need for con-
cern - we have always
managed to tough it out
before . and we can tough
it out again.
Jeremiah' s wa rn i ngs
fell on deaf ea rs - but
the enemy came.
John the Baptist was a
"voice cryi ng in the wil-
derness" not only in fac t.
but in prophetic sym-
bo lism - a voice car-
rying a message of the
comi ng of the Son of
God then. and the need
to rep en t. bu t carry ing
that message int o a wil-
derness of religious con-
fusion. doubt . a pa t hy.
lethar gy an d unconcern.
Jesus said: "And in
their case the prophecy
of Isaiah is being ful -
filled . which says. 'You
will keep on hearing. but
will not understand; and
you will keep on seeing.
but will not perceive; for
the heart of this people
ha s become dull . and
with their ears they
sca rcely hear. and they
have closed their eyes lest they
should see with their eyes. and hear
with their ears. and understand with
their heart. and turn again. and I
should heal them' " (Matt. 13: 14-
15. New American Standard Bible).
What Is Your Obligation?
Did you ever notice Jesus' pre-
diction that a great Work of WIT-
NESS and WARNI NG to thi s sleepy
world would immediately precede
Hi s own interference in world
events? "And thi s gospel of the
kingdom shall be preached in all the
The PLAIN TRUTH Februar y 1977
world for a witness unto all nations;
and then shall the end come" (Matt .
24: 14).
The ONLY prophesied event. then.
which determines exactly WHEN the
"end shall come." is the preaching of
that witness and warning message to
the world! That great Work . pro-
claiming the soo n-coming of Christ.
and making plain the true MEANING
of today' s frightening world condi-
tio ns. was prophesied to take place
just bef ore a grea t tribulation!
Somehow. YOU have come into
contact with that great Work! Are
you one who is so sleepily uncon-
cerned about this present world that
you just cannot seem to become
alert to the tremendous meaning of
the times in which you live? Para-
doxically. Jes us prophesied that HIS
OWN PEOPLE would be about half
asleep at the most dangerous mo-
ments in history. Search the Scrip-
tures concerning the condition of
the Church of God just prior to the
tribulation. and you find a sleepy
church, lying down on the job,
drowsily unconcerned (see Mat t.
24:37-51 ; Matt . 25:1-13; Rev . 3:14-
22).
Knowledge carries obligati on s.
Awareness of world conditions car-
ries responsibility. If you were the
first to di scover a building on fire.
surely you would report it. I f you
had advance warning of a flash
flood . surely you would warn your
nei gh bors to go to high gro und. If
you were aware of impending dan -
ger. surely yo u would feel a responsi-
bili ty!
Knowledge of th is kind requires a
commitment! It requires
action instead of apat hy.
What is, then. the obli-
ga tion required of one
who KNOWS the scope of
worl d con ditions in the
ligh t of Bible prophecy -
who clearly sees the fa ct
that we are living in the
prophesied time of the
end?
Obviously. it is to be-
come INVOLVED in that
great Work of God . It is
to sea rch the Scriptures.
to watch world news and
cha nging world condi-
tions (Luke 21:36). to
PRAY for the Work. and
to support the Work.
Paul sai d: " Continue
in prayer, and wa tch in
the sa me with thanksgiv-
ing; with al praying also
for us. that God wou ld
open unt o us a door of
utterance. to speak the
mystery of Christ. for
which I am al s o i n
bonds: that I ma y make
it manifest. as I ought to
speak" (Col. 4:2-4).
Paul said to keep on
praying in a watchf ul att itude. fully
sen sitized and aware of the meaning
of conditions. He said to pr ay spe-
cifically for the work being done of
preaching a message of warning and
witness to all nati ons - to make it
your very life - as it was to Paul.
and to all those called int o God' s
Work down through the ages.
In thi s time of NONinvolvement ,
of inaction. of lethargy, inattention ,
sleepy, turned-off. "don't-care" att i-
tudes. are YOU one who can clearly
see a calling of God and answer that
call? 0
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ATALE OF TWO
PROPHETS
by David Jon Hill
"For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by
Jesus Christ" (John 1:17). Was Moses ever acquainted with
grace and truth? Did Jesus ignore the law? Did these two proph-
ets - one the founder of Israel and mediator of the Old Cov-
enant, the other the Son of God and the Mediator of the New
Covenant - have anything in common? Were they Jekyll and
Hyde, or two of a kind? Were they opposites, or just alike?
Contradictory or complementary? Let's get to know both Moses
and Jesus better - the tale of these two prophets is fascinating!
H
ard, strong, stern - does that
describe Moses?
Merciful, loving, longsuffer-
ing, meek, lowly, kind, forgi ving ,
frie ndly - does that descr ibe Jesus?
Co uld both of these descript ion s
possibl y fit both Moses and Jesus?
Almost every Christian knows
more about Jesus than he does
ab out Moses, Let's become better
acq uainted with that man Moses.
Let's look int o the pages of Scrip-
tu re and find out mor e about that
pr ophet God used to begin the writ-
ing of His Holy Bible. Let's get to
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know that Mose s who prophesied of
Christ - that Moses who brought
Israel from slavery to sovereignty
(Acts 7:37 and Exodus 6:26, 27) .
Behi nd the Scenes
Let's become personally familiar
with the character and personality
of that Moses who was "mighty in
words and in deeds" according to
Stephen, the first martyr of the
Christian Church (Acts 7:22). Let's
set aside all preconceived notions
about that man Moses, and get to
know him intimately. We can draw
from histor y and trad ition , but let' s
avoid bigotry at all costs. Let's go
behind the scenes of plague and
pest ilence, behind the events of the
pa rtin g of the Red Sea and the giv-
ing of the Law, behind the stories of
the building of the tab ernacle in the
wilderness, the establishme nt of the
Levitical pri esth ood .
Moses was a human being. He
suffered frustr ati ons from unful-
filled desires , misunderstandings of
his motives from his fellow Israel-
ites, self-do ubts concerni ng his own
abilities to perform the momentous
tas ks God required of him, family
probl em s wi t h his wife, sis ter.
brother , in-laws and ado pted par-
ents.
Let's get to know him bett er - he
was reall y a prett y nice guy. Let's
become Moses' friend - after all,
God was! (Exodus 33: II. )
Je su s de scended fro m J udah .
Moses ca me from Levi. Both were
sons of Abraham. Jesus was a "babe
in a manger. " Moses was a bab e in
a boat. Moses was born a slave .
Je sus was the single object of in-
ten se per secution by a king inspi red
by Sat an det ermined to exter mi na te
Him while He was yet a child.
Moses was ad opted int o Pharaoh 's
famil y a nd became a prince of
Egypt. J esu s was the Prince of
Peace . Moses was a gener al of the
armies of Egypt. Jesus was Ca pta in
of the Host. Moses fled for his life
into exil e in Sinai, away from Egyp t.
Je sus was taken, to sa ve His life, in
exile into Egypt by His parents.
Years of Preparation
Moses' li fe spa nned 120 years.
Je sus' human life was only a littl e
over 33. Moses' life is easily di vided
into three distinctly different periods
of 40 ye a rs each. Eight y yea rs
passed before God called Moses to
his most important remainin g forty
years. But the measure of the man
Moses was gr eatl y influenced by
those eighty yea rs of prepar at ion.
Let's look at them bri efly.
Whatever the arguments as to
which is dominant in a man's life,
two things shape the per son: hered-
ity and environment.
Moses' great gra nd fa t her was
Levi, son of Jacob and Leah, and
founder of one of the tribes of
Israel. When Leah, Jacob's cousin
on Abraham' s side of the family,
bore Levi she was very happy be-
ca use he was her third son by Jacob .
Leah was not Jacob's choice for a
wife, but through deception by La-
ban, Jacob' s uncle- cum-father-in-
law, became his first legal wife. Ja-
cob's choice was Rachel, Leah 's sis-
ter. Th erefore Jac ob preferred
Rachel and snubbed Leah. God saw
Leah's problem and blessed her
with the majority of Jacob's sons. At
the bi rth of thi s third son, Leah felt
things would be different : " Now this
time will my husband be joined unto
me, because I have born him three
sons: therefore was his name called
Levi" (Genesis 29:34).
Levi , in Hebrew, means "jo ined."
Alt hough Leah 's sentiment regard-
ing her thi rd son was per sonal , her
choice of name for Levi lat er proved
to . be prophetic as well : the entire
tri be of Levi "jo ined" the nati on of
Isr ael to God by fulfilling the offices
of the Levitical pri esthood !
Beginn ing with Abra ha m, who
married his half-sister, an d con tin-
uin g through Isaac, who took a
cousi n to wife, and Jacob, who also
married a cousin, the custom of the
fami ly had been to maint ain the
genet ic pool by int ermarriage withi n
the family. Many probl ems were
created by thi s, but many strengths
were also passed on. Th e record of
the family shows wealth, educa tion
and brilli ance. Until politically gen-
era ted slavery via the first pogroms
of history in Egypt thrust Abra-
ham' s descendants into a poverty so
abject they didn't even own their
own bodi es, he and his offspring
wer e wea lthy beyond most modern
concepts of riches.
Educa ted in the finest institutions
of learn ing in the centers of the civ-
ilization of their day as well as by
the cruci ble of trade, commerce and
animal husbandry, Abraha m and
his chi ldren were cosmopolitans of
the nth degree of their day. Con-
trary to popular opinion, the record
seems to show that Abra ham and
his family brought culture to Egypt.
rather than obtaining it there.
As to b r i llia nce : Abra ha m.
, blessed by God, managed to extri-
ca te himself from two politi call y
tricky situa tions with the Pharaoh of
Egypt and the King of Gerar - not
only esca ping the consequ ences of
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lying to them, but adding immensely
to his already great riches in the
process. Isaac maintained the family
wealth and duplicated Abraham's
political coup with a lat er King of
Gerar. Jacob even outmaneuvered
his own father and brother (with his
mother's help ), won both the birth-
right and the blessing from Isaac,
outfoxed the very foxy Laban , his
uncle, and establ ished independent
wea lth for a family of twelve sons
and a dau ghter! And of course we
all know of the brilli ant success of
Joseph, the half-brother of Levi, in
Egypt.
Faults and Talents
Th e purpose of all this is to show
that despite the fact that Moses be-
ga n as the son of a slave. he had
inh erent capacities in his bloodlines
which qu alified him to be used to
fulfill the un iqu e commission God
called him to accomplish.
On the other hand, there were
fami ly char acteristics many prefer
to overlook in lioni zing these holy
men of the Bible. God doesn't leave
it out, however. He tells the whole
story and makes these gia nts much
eas ier to understand by showi ng
their entirely human faults as well
as talents. Th e famil y had a strea k
of clever , scheming deviousness and
used it to execute plots against eac h
other as much as agai nst the world
around them. Strong, if not violent,
tempers provided anoth er common
tr ait. Opinionat ed and of iron will,
the y were from time to time not
even beyond a rguing with God
Himself - though the main thrust of
their lives was one of faithful obedi-
ence.
Another overview of Moses' he-
redity was a strong dominance
among the women of the family. No
second-class citizens, these wome n
- they are only a bit overshadowed
by even mor e dominant mal es in
the family, by custom, trad ition and
the way God mad e things.
Following the family tradition,
Moses' father , Arnrarn, married his
own aunt, his father 's sister - and
togeth er they prod uced Miri am, Aa -
ron and Moses: all parti cipat ing in
the focus of this genea logy of stro ng
trait s.
Living in more than diffi cult
times. Am ram a nd J och e bed ,
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Moses' parents, gave birth to him in
an impossible time for raising sons.
By royal decree all boy babies were
to be ext erminat ed. The Egyptians
fe ared a popu lation explosion
among their Hebrew slave class
would enda nger their national exis-
tence: hen ce infa nt icide by law!
Using their natural history of re-
sourcefulness and exe rcising faith,
Moses' par ents set their as yet un-
named three-month- old son on a
voyage down the river precalcul ated
to end at the feet of the frus tra ted,
childless daught er of Phar aoh as she
pursued her ritu alistic ablutions in
the waters of the Nile-god Egypt
served.
Cl ever Miri am spied on the event
and reported all to mother Jochebed
(both strong women). Even more
clever, Jochebed managed to in-
grati at e her self wit h the roya l
daught er of Phar aoh and wrangle
herself the posit ion of wet nurse and
gove rness for that blessed gift of the
Nil e, (na med now) Moses! And in
addition, she got paid! Th at fasci-
nat ing int erplay of human endeavor
and God's intervention at time s of
crisis set Moses on a career unprece-
dented in history.
Just as the innocent naming of
Levi by Leah , drawing from the cir-
cumstances of his bir th, was lat er
prophetic, so was the naming of
Moses by the daught er of Pharaoh.
Viewing the child's miraculous ap-
pearance on the bosom of the god-
Nile as an answer to her prayers, she
dubbed him " Drawn Out" (Moses),
because, she said, " I drew him out
of the wat er" (Exodus 2: 10). Later,
as you know, this Moses was to
"draw out" the entire slave-na tion
of Israel, and in so doing dest roy
Egypt for generations.
First Forty Years
Paul tells us in Hebrews a peculi ar
thing about Moses: " Esteemi ng the
rep roach of Christ grea ter riches
than the treasur es in Egypt: for he
had respect unto the recompence of
the rewa rd. By faith he forsook
Egypt, not fear ing the wrath of the
king: for he endured, as seeing him
who is i n visi b le"! ( He b r ews
11 :26,27.) Th is truth, inspired by
the Holy Spirit, says Moses knew his
her itage, his background, the prom-
ises and prophecies passed on from
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Abraham to Jacob to Levi to Amran,
to Moses!
The biblical record of Moses' first
forty years covers just half a chap-
ter, but the skeleton outline of
events provides enough detail to
flesh in most of the remainder from
reason and tradition. Taught the
truths Abraham received from God,
Moses' first learning experience, his
primary education, was received at
the breast of Jochebed, the witty,
clever, faithful mother-cum-govern-
ess for the adopted, miraculous Gift
of the Nile, the new Prince of Egypt!
Built onto this basic foundation of
truth was his royal education.
Adopted into the very top social
stratum of the greatest civilization
of the day, nothing was spared to
provide him with the very best
available on earth in every facet of
his life. History, perverted by politi-
cal necessity of the time as is the
case of all history. Mathematics
from the accumulated intelligence
of the unprecedented and, to this
day, unduplicated excellence of
pyramid builders. Medicine from
physicians performing delicate
brain surgery unduplicated until our
present century. Military tactics
from the reservoir of the strongest
army of the day. Literature and the
arts from one of the cradles of this
most precious segment of life. in the
human sphere of things. Political
science. engineering. horticult ure.
ast ronomy. the physical scie nce s.
the soci al gr ace s, government. law.
protocol, j ur isprudence . ..
Forty yea rs of the best educa tion.
including practical applicati on.
avail able on earth - and. of course.
all paid for from the royal treasury!
And. most important of all, this en-
tire process was God-guided. The
Lord knew how He was going to use
Moses all along. And, speaking of
cleverness, wasn't God pretty clever.
getting Satan and his deceived fol-
lowers to provide a proper back-
ground for Hi s boy Moses!?
Life Begins at Forty
Permeated with the truth of God
taught him by his real mother, satu-
rated with all ' the knowledge the
royalty of Egypt could provide,
Moses came to the first severe crisis
point of his life. Seeking to destroy
. this spoiled gift of the gods. Moses'
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siblings of actual Egyptian royalty
must have precipitated his need to
flee into exile when he slew that
Egyptian in defense of his blood-
brethren.
Well, they say life begins at forty!
And for Moses, at least, a com-
pletely NEW life began at forty.
Reared in the lap of luxury uni-
maginable, unlimited funds to sus-
tain his every need and whim, an
unlimited supply of manpower al-
ways at his disposal to execute
whatever project he might want to
pursue, lauded, praised, honored
and revered, protected, provided for
and pampered - Moses now faced
making his living with his own two
hands! Exhausted and fear-ridden
from his flight from Egypt, Moses
met a Midianite mogul named
Jethro-Reuel (which modest name,
being interpreted, means "His Ex-
cellency, the Friend of God"). J.R.
offered him a job as a shepherd for
his flocks which wandered for suste-
nance all over the Sinai wilderness.
Another forty years of Moses'
continuing education lay before
him. The rough life of a nomadic
herdsman, forced to survive and
thrive in the blast furnace of that
impossible piece of geography: the
Sinai Desert! What a comedown for
the powerful . Prince of Egypt. Pen-
niless . wanted for murder by the
most powerful nation on earth, son
of a slave people, inexperienced in
living by the swea t of his brow,
Moses began a new life. Forty years
and Moses ha d gone from rags to
riches - and hack to rags again!
But don 't feel too sorry for him -
God was with him, and he knew it!
He knew about Christ! He could
picture in his mind's eye 'the fulfill-
ment of promises made to Abraham
ab out the first coming of Jesus that
you and I can read about in the
Gospels as recorded history: And
beyond that, he could also picture
the other promises of that second
coming that hasn't happened yet:
the Kingdom. the power and the
glory of God on earth! Moses could
see all that as if it had already hap-
pened. He was jealous in guarding
in his heart and mind his own part
in that Kingdom of God - and he
well knew what kingdoms are all
about.
That knowledge, that faith sus-
tained him completely. Moses didn't
miss a beat in picking up his new
style at' life in the desolate desert.
He selected a rough, strong. hard-
wood stick and started herding
sheep.
It wasn't all bad news.J.R. had a
supply of daughters that wouldn't
quit, seven of them! He happily
gave Zipporah, his eldest, to Moses
for his wife, and promptly became a
grandfather. Moses called his son
"Stranger" (Gershom), because, he
said, "I have been a stranger in a
strange land" (Exodus 2:22).
Jesus' Enigmatic Statement
One thing we should understand
thoroughly is that Moses was very
personally acquainted with the One
we call Jesus. The Jesus of the New
Testament was the Lord of the Old
Testament! Jesus frustrated the the-
ologians of His day with this
enigmatic commentary : "Your
father Abraham rejoiced to see my
day: and he saw it, and was glad.
Then said the Jews unto him , Thou
art not yet fifty years old, and hast
thou seen Abraham? Jesus said unto
them. Verily, verily, I say unto you.
Before Abraham was . I am"! (John
8:56-58.)
Jesus the Word of God who was
God, and became flesh, always
existed. He was the One who told us
that no man had either seen or
heard the Father. It was through
Him that all things that are made in
heaven and in earth were made.
Jesus is the One who, in the prayer
He made to His Father just I ~ r
the -crucifixion. asked 1'("
He had formerly en :
Father be restored t
had completed the
which He came to earth.
The doctrines of some woulo 1,-
I gate Jesus to being a created being.
I having a beginning. Some think He
is Michael the archangel. And of
course some are of the opinion t hat
He was just an outstanding human
being of His day expounding social
philosophies beyond the ' scope of
His generation. And many deny
Him altogether, even as a historical
person, and feel He is the invention
of whoever it was that started the
Christian movement. an out-
standing member of the mythical
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DEPTH, made me reali ze how
WRONG I had been - in how I lived
- in what I belie ved - in almost
every way. It brought me to a sta te
of literall y GIVING UP everything I
had believed - sta rting all over
ag ai n f rom scratch, rea lizing the
Bible was God REVEALI NG tru e ba-
sic knowl edge. It brought a bo ut a
complete conver sion by the spring
of 1927. I came to feel every t hing
about me had been WRONG - NO
GOOD - I compared myself to a
worthless hunk of burned-out j unk.
I think FEW ha ve ever had pre-
conceived bel iefs, ide as, opinions, so
thoroughly ERASED from their minds
- a ble to look at the BIBLE as God
lit er all y speaking to me (in print) -
giving me KNOWLEDGE that was
true!
But God was calling me to a VERY
SPECIAL COMMISSION. In man y W,lyS
He had prepared me in certa in ex-
periences - most UNUSUAL experi-
ences - in ea rly life fro m age 16 for
my fut ur e ca lling.
In othe r words, God brought me
to a WILLINGNESS to completely
OPEN MY MI ND to Hi s revelati on of
TRUTH - eve n thou gh it was ofte n
truth I did not like to recei ve.
I know of NO OTHER who has ever
become founder of a reli gion, or a
religious lead er of ANY KIND, who
ever ca me INTO THE TRUTH in the
way God BROUGHT MEINTOIT.
Al ways, it see ms, men start out in
rel igious or Bibl e st udy with so
MANY PREVIOUS FALSE BELI EFS that
what new knowledge they do learn
is all mi xed up with so mu ch pre-
viously believed ERRONEOUS teach-
ings, they never do come to, receive
GOD'S TRUTH pure and simple, just
AS IT IS!
At a luncheon tod ay. I was sayi ng
that the MOST IGNORANT people in
the wo rld tod ay are the HIGHEST
EDUCATED! Tha t is true BECAUSEthi s
wo rld's educa tion - especially its
high er educatio n in the grea t un i-
ve rsi t ies - is a lmos t a ltoge t he r
BASED on the FALSE PREMISE of the
EVOLUTIONARY THEORY. They have
been " educa ted" by be ing TAUGHT
things that are UNTRUE - oppos ite
to, or antithesis of. TRUTH. Chi ldren
a re sta rted out, as ide from the three
" R's," be ing TAUGHT things that a re
either direct lies, theories, or false
propaganda. They are gr ad ed on
how closely they recite or writ e in
test s what has been given th em.
One ex a mple : A grandson of
mine was once as ked by hi s teacher
(he was in gra de scho ol), " Who dis-
covered America?" "The Indian s,"
he ans wered. "Yo u are WRONG,
Larry," sa id the teacher. " Don' t yo u
kn ow that COLUMBUS di scover ed
Ame rica?" "But the Indians wer e al-
ready here lon g before Columbus
came," answer ed my grandson. He
was given a failing grade for th at
co rrect answer .
Our system of education is one of
memorizing. Children and olde r stu-
dents are exp ected to MEMORIZE
what is taught, whe t her true or fal se.
German children are taught one
thing a bout World Wars I a nd II,
but Brit ish and American child ren
ha ve altogether DIFFERENT histor y
books from wh ich they a rc tau ght.
I commented at lunch tod ay that
the hardest ones to educate in the
millennium when the KI NGDOM OF
GOD rules the eart h will be the col-
lege professors a nd the va in scho l-
a rly minds of the " highly educated. "
It is FAR more difficult to UNlea rn
error than to LEARN a truth never
heard before.
But God brought me through a
process that ERASED former mi s-
kn owledge - a nd, as it were, ga ve
me a clear sta rt from "scratch."
I wonder if yo u realize that every
TRUTH of GOD, acc epted as true
DOCTRINE a nd BELI EF in the World-
wide Church of God, ca me from
Christ through me, or was finall y
approved a nd made official through
me.
Forty-three years ago, God co m-
mitted to me Hi s GREAT COMMIS-
SION - to ca rry Christ 's Gospel
MESSAGE of the imminent coming
KI NGDOM OF GOD into a ll th e
wo rld.
Again I say that is a STAGGERING
RESPONSIBILITY!
Alone, I wo ul d be utterly helpless
to ca rry out that commission. Ther e-
fore, God used me first in rai sin g up
HI S CHURCH of this era, to stand
loyally back of me, making it pos-
sible.
The parent churc h was 19 mem-
bers. That was in Au gust 1933. I had
reall y been given the GREAT COM-
MISSION in mid-July of that yea r
when I was 40. I was not elected; I
was appointed by Je sus Christ , the
HEAD of the Church. How may that
be kn own? By THE FRUITS - BYTHE
FACTS, wh i c h ca n no t b e co n-
tr adict ed!
My wife and I were then mem-
bers of NO church. We were atte nd-
ing, fellows hi pping in love, a nd
tr ying to coope ra te with the people
then kn own as Church of God , Sev-
enth Day, with headquarter s at
Stanberry, Mi ssouri. Their mini s-
ters, comparatively uneducated
(only one had a yea r of college),
jealous of the fruit God was bearing
th rough me, o pposed a nd pe r-
secuted me from the beginning,
though the brethren all seeme d to
love my wife a nd me warmly. But
we had never become members of
th eir church.
Soon we learned of th e di s-
tinction, in the 2nd and 3rd cha pters
of Rev el ation. God revealed to me.
plai nly. in 1926-27, that in the se two
ch apters Christ was speaki ng of the
va rious conditions in His Church all
through th is age up un til His return
as King of kin gs in His KINGDOM.
But the conditions mention ed in the
me ssage to the an gel of the Church
at Ephes us predominated during
th at first era of the Churc h. They
had amo ng them some of the Laodi-
cean lukewarmness. They also had
the apos tles and their immediat e
s uccessors procla im in g the AN-
NOUNCEMENT of the KI NGDOM OF
GOD. But because of rapidly grow-
ing persecution, and the rise of wha t
later became the Roman Ca tho lic
Church, their people rapidly were
turning to "ANOTHER GOSPEL" (Gal.
1:6-8; II Co r. 11:3-4 ; Rom. 1:18,25;
etc. ). But the predominating condi-
tion in that era was that they had
lost their first love.
But we in thi s Ph iladelphi a era
ha ve too much of that fault, also.
When first TRULY converted, it is
like a ROMANCE, but we too soon
cool down in our LOVE for Chris t
and HI SWORK.
Those brethren I ca me among
were humble, sincere, str ict Sabbath
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keepers, but as a whol e, spiritua lly
DEAD - especially their mini sters.
Still there were some among them
who had th at first love of the TRUTH.
But they did NOT proclaim Christ' s
Gospel of the KINGDOM OF GOD,
nor eve n understand what it was.
They were bent on . preaching a
"thi rd angel' s messag e."
God a llott ed 6,000 yea rs for
humanity to go its own way - fol-
lowing Adam's example. Men orga-
niz ed th eir own s o c ie t ies,
govern ments, forms of education
and comme rce, not realizing they
were being swayed by Satan in the
process. Man is writi ng the lesson by
EXPERIENCE - going Satan' s WAY -
the way that can onl y bring evil re-
sults .
Now that 6,000 years is almos t
up , the KI NGDOM OF GOD is abo ut
to take ove r and GOVERN this ea rth.
Th e time has arrived when God
wants the imminency of Hi s KING-
DOM to be ANNOUNCED to all the
world.
The livin g Christ trained and
chose me to ca rry out that stagger-
ing and tremendous GREAT COMMIS-
SION.
No MAN, of himself, could have
decid ed to do thi s, and, on his own
human ability and power alone,
have RAISED up thi s Worldwide
Church of God , have de velop ed the
faci lities and machinery for BROAD-
CASTING THAT ANNOUNCEMENT - by
rad io, printing press, television , per-
sonal preaching to THE WORLD. This
WORK OF GOD has grown into a
great , powerful WORLDWIDE and
WORLD-KNOWN work.
There is but one answer. No one
ca n belie ve that I alone had the
abi lity and the power to accompl ish
some thing that never before in the
history of man has been don e! GOD
DID IT, thou gh He used me as a
human serva nt. No MAN BY HUMAN
ABILITY COULDHAVEACHIEVED IT.
Yet God always has wo r ke d
through ONE MAN, surro unde d by
helpers.
Ea rly in my studies - 1926-27
- God op ened my eyes to the fact
that , whil e Revel ati on 2 and 3 cov-
er ed the condi tions in the WHOLE
CHURCH fro m its beginn in g to
Christ's coming, these two cha pters
also represented successive ERAS,
with a certain characteri st ic domi-
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nating each. WE are th e Phila-
delphia era at the specific TIME
when God is having to OPEN DOORS
to nations where those doors have
been CLOSED to Christ's me ssage.
Another vi ta l NEW TRUTHGod re-
vealed to me was our identification
as the lost sheep of the House of
Israel ( Matt. 10:6) - as di stin-
guished from the Jews (see booklet,
United States and British Common-
wealth in Prophecy) . Another was
the fact that ANGELS first inhabited
thi s earth, pri or to Adam. That the
GOVERNMENT OF GOD was esta b-
lished on ea rth ove r them, and that
they sinned (II Pet er 2:4), reje cted
GOD'S GOVERNMENT, rebelled, and
went their own way of DESTRUCTION
AND DARKNESS, instead of God's
way of CONSTRUCTIONand LIGHT.
Altho ug h I learned ea rly man y of
these BASIC TRUTHS, God did not
commi t to me Hi s GREAT COMMIS-
SION unt il I had been severely tr ied
and tested - by opposition, per-
secution, hardship, giving up every-
thing my heart had been previou sly
set on. The commitment to me of
the GREAT COMMISSION came whe n I
was 40 years old - almos t SEVEN
YEARS after I was first call ed by
being cha lle nge d into Bibl e study.
In th ose early days of gett ing
Christ's last MESSAGE to the people, I
had to sta rt in the VERY SMALLEST
manner possible. I first spoke over
ra dio in October 1933 . I procl aimed ,
for five days straight, the KI NGDOM
OF GOD, showing the PROMISES were
made to ABRAHAM - that they were
for inheritance of th e EARTH, not
heaven - that Christ was going to
return to EARTH and rul e here for a
th ousand yea rs. Hundreds were
SHOCKED! They looked in thei r Bib-
les, as I had asked th em, to the very
scriptures I gave them . They went to
their ministers. They said to them,
WHY have YOU been preaching to
me just the OPPOSITE of wha t the
Bible says, showing the scri ptures to
their minister s. That brou ght per-
secution from the mini st ers, but
people began to LISTEN.
. On January 8, 1934 the program
called " Ra dio Church of God"
went on the ai r, never to cease to
th is day. Audiences GREW. I had to
tak e it on FAITH.
Once, whe n I had to leave home
in two minutes for the broadcast ,
without the mon ey to pay (as I had
to in ad vance) for that morning' s
broadcast, a man came to th e front
door, say ing, "Here' s my tithe," and
left running. It was 10 doll ar s. An -
other time I was walking to the sta -
tion for a broadcast , and the money
HAD NOT COME. But a man met me
on th e way, and handed me the
money. ALWAYS, one way or an-
other, the money came. This was a
WORK OF FAITH. It was the Work of
GOD!
In those earl y days I was espe -
cially interested in the book of Eze-
kiel. A special reason was that I saw
Ezekiel was first give n God 's mes-
sage in PROPHECY, whil e he was a
Jewish slave, by the River Che ba r in
the land of Babylon. Now thi s was
close to 120 yea rs af ter the House of
ISRAEL had been tak en ca ptive to
ASSYRIA.
My astonis hme nt was arouse d
when I saw that his message was to
be tak en to the HOUSE OF ISRAEL.
Now Ezekiel was a slave amo ng the
HOUSE OF JUDAH - not Isr ael. By
th is time many of the " lost sheep of
th e House of Isr ael" had mi gr ated
north and west from Assy ria. They
we re, by Ezekiel's time, in Britain
and Western Europe.
The book of Ezekiel starts off in
the first chapter with a rather weird
descripti on of hi s vis io n of th e
GLORYOFGOD.
The first message, or inst ruction
from God, comes, beginning the
second cha pter. "And he sa id unto
me , Son of man, I send thee to the
children of Israel, to a reb ellious na-
tion : .. [and they sha ll know] that
ther e hath been a prophet among
th em" (Eze k. 2:3, 5; cf. Rev. 3:9).
Now noti ce cha pter three. In ver-
ses 8- 10 of the seco nd chapt er , he
had been given the message in a
book - a roll , written on both sides
- about which I will refe r lat er. In
cha p te r 3, ve rse I, God says :
". .. Eat THIS ROLL, and GO spea k
unto th e house of Isr ael." Again in
verse 4: " Son of man, GO, get thee
unto the hou se of Isr ael, and spea k
with my words unto them."
NOWHERE in the Bibl e are JEWS
ca lled " the house of Isr ael." This
term applies ONLYto the TEN-tribed
Kingd om of Isr ael taken into Assy-
rian captivity mor e than a hundred
years before Ezeki el and the Jews of
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th e House of J UDAH were taken to
Babylon .
Nowher e in the book does Eze kiel
record his j ourney from wher e he
was in Babylon to those of the
House of Israel who were then in
Brit ain and Western Europ e. No -
whe re does he record his giving of
the message to them. He merely RE-
CEIVED the message. He merely RE-
CORDED IT IN WRITI NG.
There is no reason to think hi s
message was ever delivered to the
House of Israel in Ezeki el's time.
The message in fact is for tod ay -
and conta ined a WARNING of things
to happen to Britain, Ameri ca and
the West ern European nations NOW
in OUR DAY.
I saw clearly, back in those ea rly
days, that Ezekiel's prophecy was a
, message to be taken by some MOD-
ERN TWENTI ETH CENTURYserva nt of
God - a " modern Ezeki el " to
Am eri ca, Brit ain, Canada, Austra-
lia, New Zeal and and South Africa .
I dwelt in hundreds of br oad casts
on thi s book of Eze kiel and its
WARNING of things IMMI NENTLY
NOW t o HAPP EN t o Brit a in ,
th e Unite d St ates a nd West ern
Europe.
Of course I always did, from the
very beginning of th is WORK OF
GOD, procl aim the good news of the
COMING KI NGDOM OFGOD.
The origina l apostles proclaimed
the KINGDOM OFGOD, but they also
put ver y speci al emphasis on some -
thing th at specially applied only to
their time, right then. They were
personal EYEWITNESSES to the death,
buri al a nd resurrection of Jesu s
Christ. In THEIR da y, the chief oppo-
sition and persecution came from
those Jewi sh leaders who rej ected
Christ as the promised Messiah .
Do NOT MISUNDERSTAND. The
J ews as a who le did not rej ect
Christ. Indeed, virtually all His fol-
lowers - the 120 that wer e WITH
HIM and the apost les (Acts I : 15)
from which the Church sta rted - all
we re J ews (o r prosel yt es). The
Church BEGAN as almost 100% J EW-
ISH. The apos tle Paul al ways went
first to the Jews, and most of his
churc hes started out as Jewish. The
persecution was not so much from
the rank and file of Jewish people as
from their Jewish RULERS, who held
political j obs under the Roman gov-
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ern ment - the Pharisees - and also
the scribes and Sadducees.
Neverthel ess, the EARLIEST oppo-
sition and per secuti on the apos tles
face d at th e BEGINNING o f the
Church was from these officials who
REJECTED Christ as the promised
Messiah . The apos tles were EYE-
WITNESSES to Hi s life, death an d
RESURRECTION. They spe nt 40 days
with Him AFTER Hi s resurrection.
In OUR TIME, God showed me in
th e Ne w Te stament whe re He sent
Hi s di sciple s FIRST to th e sa me " lost
s he e p of the house o f Isr ael "
(Matt. 15:24) . And so it was that
Ch rist, the Head of thi s Work,
caused me during the first 20 or 25
years of this Work to put SPECIAL
em phasis on Ezekiel's warning to
OUR PEOPLE, IN OUR DAY. (Again,
read the ab ove-mentioned bookl et.)
But in the MEANTIME I was mak-
ing every effort, as well as Garner
Ted after he came on the broadcast
- 1955 and after , as my chief assis -
tant in God' s Work - to get the
GOOD NEWS of the coming KI NG-
DOM OF GOD int o other countries
AROUND THE WORLD - but wit h
VERYLITTLESUCCESS.
In those Gentile countries, the
govern ment CONTROLS ALL MEANS
OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATION OREDU-
CATION. They and their forms of
go vern ment seek to control the
MINDS of their people.
For years I tried to rea ch coun-
tri es like India, China, Russia, Ar-
gen ti na , Brazil , et c. , and even
Britain, France, Germany, Holland,
Belgium, etc . from radio stations
OUTSIDE their countries but close to
their borders.
These stations were represented
to us by New York agents as super-
power stations that would give us
hu ge blanket cover age in the ad-
j oi ning nations we wanted to reach.
We went on them, thinking at the
time that we had found a way to
reach these nations from the OUT-
SIDE. We even sta rted reall y BUILD-
ING our United St ates listenin g
audi ence - and Plain Truth circula-
tion - through three Mexican sta-
tions just across the border.
But , outside of these, most of the
others proved to be reall y of vir -
tually no value. They wer e sta tions
that had been installed during the
war by U.S. military sources. After
the war , these "s ma rt" agents told
local agents they could keep them
going as pr ofit abl e businesses by
selling time to religiou s broad casters
- regarded by them as "s uckers"
who would buy anythi ng. '
But exce pt for South Africa. they
did very littl e if any good. They sim-
pl y were NOT gett ing .the message
out to the world. The door s to these
nations we were tryin g to reach were
really closed to us, then. Closed to
Christ's message.
But Christ sai d to His Phil a-
delphi a era Church, that because we
ha ve but littl e strength, He would
open those doors to us (Rev. 3:8).
Now I want to take you back to
Ezekiel and show you something I
think VERY EXCITING and MOST IM-
PORTANT!
God sai d to Ezekiel: " But thou ,
son of man , hear what I say unto
th ee . .. open thy mouth, and ea t
that I give thee. And when I looked,
behold, an hand was sent unto me;
and, 10, a roll of a book was therein ;
and he sprea d it before me ; and it
was writte n within and without: and
there ' was writte n ther ein lamenta-
ti ons, a nd mourning, and woe"
(Eze k. 2:8-10).
Cont in ue : " Moreover he sai d
unto me , Son of man, eat tha t thou
findest ; eat th is roll , and GO speak
unto the house of Israel" (Ezek. 3: I).
Now let us turn to the book of
Re velation.
Chapter one gives the opening
salutation and the introduction, giv-
ing the real SUBJECT of which the
book is concerned. It is in verse 10:
"I was in the Spirit on the Lord's
day, and heard behind me a gre at
voice, as of a trumpet." ,
In the openi ng salutation we find
th at it is NOT the revelation of John
at all, but the revelation of Jesus
Christ. The apostle John was merely
the WRITER, who recorded ( I) the
WORD OF GOD, (2) the testimony -
direct words of - Jesus Christ , and
(3) all the th ings that he SAW in
VISION. In this vision he was taken
from the Isle of Patmos, whe re he
a ctua lly was as he wrote, into THE
DAYOFTHELORD - a special period
of TIME here ca lled the " LORD'S
DAY."
The DAY OFTHE LORD is the time
when GOD supernaturally shall IN-
TERVENE in thi s world's affairs, the
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beginning of His TAKING OVER ALL
its governments, societies, produc-
tion, commerce. We have had 6,000
years of the DAY OF MAN. Now we
shall soon have 1,000 years of the
DAY OFGOD.
Chapters 2 and 3 are messages
direct from Jesus, in heaven, sent to
the angels (which some believe
means to the chief human leaders of
the SEVEN CHURCHES). Chapter 4
describes a vision of God's throne in
heaven. Chapter 5 shows God on
His throne with a BOOK in His right
hand - again, a SCROLL, written on
both sides, and rolled up and
SEALED with SEVEN SEALS. No one in
heaven or earth was able to open
the seals and REVEAL what was
therein written. Then appeared one
as a slain, resurrected Lamb, stand-
ing in front of the throne, and HE
alone was worthy to open the seals
and REVEAL the meaning of the
book. He stepped forward and took
the book from the right hand of
God.
The sixth chapter shows the open-
ing of the first SIX of the seals. The
seven seals cover the ENTIRE BOOK.
The sixth seal, in time sequence,
brings us down to the DAY OF THE
LORD, with terrifying SIGNS in the
sun, moon and stars.
The seventh chapter begins with
four angels poised to let go the
blowing of the first four TRUMPETS
of the seven TRUMPET PLAGUES,
which are and constitute (that is, all
seven trumpet plagues) the seventh
SEAL.
Then another angel appears
crying out to the four angels to
HOLD UP the blowing of these trum-
pet plagues UNTIL the servants of
God are sealed.
So here is one example of where
God deliberately held up world con-
ditions, and His own intervention
UNTIL something important to HIM
was accomplished. In this case it
was the sealing of the 144,000. And
also the other great numberless
MULTITUDE of all nations. They (this
numberless multitude) have all
come through the GREAT TRIBULA-
TION, which was symbolized by the
fifth seal.
The seventh seal is not opened
until the beginning of the eighth
chapter. The first trumpet plague
blew upon the earth, the second on
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the seas, the third plague was upon
the rivers and lakes, and the fourth
upon the sun, moon and stars.
This left three more plagues,
called WOES. The seventh trumpet -
the last - will be the seven LAST
PLAGUES, at the very TIME of
Christ's coming to earth to RULE all
nations.
The ninth chapter carries the
events into the first and second
WOES (or the fifth and sixth trumpet
plagues).
But we now come to an INSET
cha pter, as I have called certain
ones, such as the 13th and 17th
chapters - in a sense, "flashback"
chapters, to bring up to date earlier
events. The seventh trumpet or
THIRD WOE is not opened until
chapter II , verse 15.
Now notice this tenth chapter -
an inset chapter, not necessarily at
all occurring at the TIME sequence of
the end of the ninth chapter. The
actual recording of EVENTS, TIME-
WISE, is not continued until chap-
ter 11, verse IS.
This chapter 10 has been virtually
OVERLOOKED. I did not comment on
it in the earlier days, or expound it
when I wrote the OUTLINE of the
book of Revelation, or the full book-
let on the Revelation. There was NO
WAY it could have been understood
then - until after subsequent events
-just as we could not have under-
stood how Satan sways the entire
WORLD, as explained in Ephesians
2: 1-2, until we had radio and televi-
sion.
A MIGHTY ANGEL comes down
from heaven, his face as the SUN, his
feet as pillars of fire. His voice was
as the roar of a lion. He set his right
foot upon the sea, and his left upon
the earth.
He had a LITTLE BOOK open.
This mighty angel in the second
half of this inset prophecy, begin-
ning verse 6, swears by the Eternal
GOD there shall be "time no longer"
(A.V. - marginal translation - "no
more delay"). But the angel contin-
ues, "But in the days of the voice of
the seventh angel [seventh trumpet
- which shall be the seven last
plagues - and which also is the PRE-
CISE TIME of Christ's coming as
KING over the earth], when he shall
. begin to sound, the mystery of God
should be finished ..." (verse 7).
I italicized "when he shall," refer-
ring to the sounding of the last and
FINAL trumpet, to show that the
time setting of this brief two-part
inset prophecy is NOT AT ORIMMEDI-
ATELY AFTER the sixth trumpet
(of chapter 9) - but SOME TIME
PRIOR TO IT! Therefore, in time
setting, this is a flashback. Now
continue:
The apostle John in his vision is
told to take the little book, which is
open in the hand of the angel. and
eat it up.
How LIKE EZEKIEL'S PROPHECY!
It was sweet as honey in his
mouth but BITTER in his stomach.
The message of the little book
seems to be what the angel next
said: "Thou must prophesy [pro-
claim - preach - foretell] again be-
fore many peoples, and nations, and
tongues, and KINGS"!
Now WHEN?
After verse 6!
The message of the little book
written on both sides of a roll , to be
eaten and swallowed, takes us di-
rectly back to Ezekiel's prophecy.
Ezekiel himself, as I have shown,
NEVER WENT TO ISRAEL, NEVER DE-
LIVERED THAT MESSAGE. It was not a
prophecy for the Israel of his day -
but for OUR DAY, NOW. Ezekiel's
prophecy was NOT a message to
MANY NATIONS, speaking different
languages, and to their KINGS. It
was to the REBELLIOUS PEOPLE of the
House of Israel and it was empha-
sized to Ezekiel they were NOT of
strange speech - NOT foreign Gen-
' tile nations. .
This WORK OF GOD did carry that
message to those same people in
OUR DAY.
Now WHEN is the TIME of this
prophecy in Revelation?
Read righ ton. Chapter II is
merely a chapter division written by
MEN. But John's book of Revelation
continues right on. The apostle, in
his vision, is told now by this same
angel to rise and MEASURE THE
TEMPLE. But LEAVE OUT the court
which is for the Gentiles, for they
shall tread down the Holy City for
3Y2 years. So the TIME of our proph-
ecy is at least 3'/2 YEARS before
Christ's coming - before THE GREAT
TRIBULATION, before the beginning
of the DAY OF THE LORDand before
A fromHerbert WArmstrong
TELLINGOF HIS VISIT
TO SOUTHERN AFRICA
ARRIVAL - Dignitaries greet Herbert W. Armstrong at the ai rport in the southern African nati on of Swazila nd.
Dear Plain Truth Reader:
I
have been virtually a prisoner in
my hotel suite here at Port Eliza-
beth, South Africa, in the El iza-
beth Hotel for one week with a
seri ously sprained ankle. I can
hobble around a little, but if I must
go as far as across the room I go in a
. wheelchair. It's the first time in my
life I can remember using a wheel-
chair.
It happened a week ago tonight,
on Thursday, November 11. I was
having a one-night public campaign
in the "Great Room" of this hotel
(which seats about 700 or 800
people). The room was virtually
packed. I was in fine shape for it
and spoke for an hour and a half -
one of the strongest sermons of my
life (no punches pulled).
Extra Strength
I was feeling"that God had given me
extra strength and power beside a
spirit of deep conviction that held
the audience spellbound and moved
them emotionally. I know the ser-
mon did not seem long to the au -
dience because it con tained a fast -
moving story flow from the BEGIN-
NING when only the "WORD" and
"GOD" existed, right on through all
creation to NOW, showi ng WHY God
put humanity on the earth and the
CAUSE of all worl d tro ubles and
HOW God finally will bring us world
PEACE - and the GLORY that shall
yet be man's human potential , FIN-
ISHING THE CREATION OF BEAUTY
AND GLORY OVER THE ENTIRE LIMIT-
LESS UNIVERSE!
It truly is the most EXCITING, IN-
TEREsTING, MEANINGFUL and IM-
PORTANT story that could possibly
be told - and it's all TRUE!
Sitting in two of the three chairs
to the left of the pulpit were Mr.
Stanley R. Rader and Mr. Robert
Fahey, manager of the South Afri -
can office and the Work in this part
of the world.
The meeting had been opened by
Mr. Fahey, followed by remarks in-
troducing me by Mr. Rader. I had
been ' sitt ing in the middle of the
three chairs. As I finished, Mr.
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Fahey, situ ng next to ' the pulpit,
rose and started to move backwards
so I could wal k in front of him to
my, seat in the midd le. So without
thinking I started to walk aro und
behind him. I guess it seemed at the
instant impolite to walk in front of
him. At any rate, with my one blind
eye and very poor eyesigh t in the
other, I did not notice that we were
on a platform that did not extend all
the wayback to the rear wall.
Actually it extended only a
couple of steps backward from the
pulpit. It was a rather BIG two steps
up to the platform or three sho rter
_steps. Anyway, witho ut seei ng the
back end of the plat form, I step ped
into thin AIR - and fell down to the
floor - some sixteen to eighteen
inc hes.
It all happened so suddenly I
hardly realized what had happened,
but both Mr. Rader and Mr. Fahey
and other men were there instantly
to pick me up. I had fallen full
weight on my left ankle while
twisted inward.
It was a bad sprain.
Next morning the doctor came. I
was taken in an ambulance to a hos-
pit al which seemed to be about
three cities away . I was taken on a
stretcher. The ambulance was cov-
ERED so we could see only ou t
through one or two very small open-
ings - with a big red cross on each
side and the rear of the outside of
the ambulance. Both Stan and Bob
went along, sitting on a side seat.
while my stretcher filled the remain-
der of the interior.
The attendants lifted me on the
stretcher stairs up to the second
story of the building and into a
ROYAL AUDIENCE - Mr. Armst ron g presents a gift of Steube n crystal to King Sobhuza 1/ of Swaziland, while Mr. Stanley
Rader, who accompanies Mr. Armstrong on hi s tr avels, looks on. The king, 76, has ruled the 6, 70o-square-mile kingdom
for 55 years. He is attired in his nation 's traditional tribal costume.
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room equipped with X-ray appa-
ratus.
No bones were broke n, j ust a very
severe sprain, bu t a severe sprain, I
found, can be a VERY PAINFUL EXPE-
RIENCE. I was returned to my hotel
suite in the ambulance after the foot
was wrapped in bandages. Soon a
wheelchair and a pair of crutches
arr ived at my room. .
Fortunately for me, since I have
been literally imprisoned here for a
week - so far - they provided me
with what I suppose is the presiden-
tial' suite. It contains one fairl y
large, L-shaped living room with a
guest bedroom and large bedroom
wit h two bathrooms, one with tub
only and the ot her wit h showe r.
But, even though I was unable to
carryon with the heavy schedule,
Messrs. Rader and Fahey, along
with others from the Johannesburg
office, have tried to carry out much
of the planned schedule for me;
leaving one of the other men to be
with me day and night in my hotel
suite.
I have done what I could. Unable
to travel and carry on the arduous
speaking' engagements, I have made
the best of the time to WRITE. I ha ve
sent in seven or eight articles for
The Plain Truth, beside co-worker
letters, getting caught up on my
writing.
On thi s trip we left Van Nu ys
Airport in California, home base for
our G-II jet aircraft, at 7:05 p.m.
Thursday, October 21, for an over-
night flight to Rome, arriving there
at 8: 17, Pasadena time, that is,
Friday morning -only by Rom e
time it was already 5: 17 in the eve-
ning. On the flight I had managed
HANDSHAKE - Prime Min ister
Maph evu Dlamini of Swaziland greets
Mr. Armstrong (above). Mr. Arm-
strong and King Sobhuza converse
during the audience at the royal
palace (l eft) .
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to get a little sleep and to write a co-
worker letter and part of an article.
Mr. Rader had needed to be in
Washington, D.C., and so had gone
on ahead by commercial flight. He
and Mrs. Rader were already in
Rome awaiting us. With me on this
long, overnight flight were my
daughter, Beverly (Mrs. Gott), and
Ramona Martin.
We spent Sunday in Rome and
Monday drove out to a hotel and
spa, about 2
1
h hours' automobile
drive north of Rome in a valley sur-
rounded by mountains. It is one of
the oldest spas in the world , 2,000
years or more, with sulfuric springs
providing an excellent location for a
health and weight-reducing spa.
Beverly and I were each about 10
pounds overweight and Ramona
somewhat more than that. Mr. and
Mrs . Rader remained in Rome, and
before we left for South Africa Mr s.
Rader flew commercial back home.
From this spa I continued writing
and telephoned in a co-worker letter
and possibly an article for The Plain
Truth. Ramona remained at thi s
spa. Beverly and I joined Mr. Rader
in Rome and flew on to Johannes-
burg.
Our schedule called for leaving
Rome a few days after arrival there
on October 22, but the summit
meeting with heads of state at Ge-
neva required the presence of Ian
Smith, the prime minister of Rho-
desia, so the four- or five-day sched-
ule for Salisbury, Rhodesia, was
canceled, and Beverly and I stayed
on at the spa during those days.
Mr. Rader, Beverly and I made
the long flight from Rome to Johan-
nesburg, making fuel stops at Cairo
and Nairobi on Sunday, November 7.
I was able to get more writing
done on the flight. We arrived Sun-
day night at Johannesburg and were
met at the airport, worn and fa-
tigued, by staff members from our
office.
Monday we had an open day to
rest up for a very arduous four-week
schedule of meetings, campaigns,
speeches, dinners, etc. , all over
South Africa. Also, I managed to get
more writing done at the hotel on
articles, leaving one .long article at
our office to be Telexed or tele -
phoned in to Pasadena.
On Tuesday, November 9, we
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flew over to a country we ha d never
before visited , Swazi land. Luggage
call was at 7:30 a.m. (our crew
picked up our luggage about 21f2
hours before actual takeoff time at
the airport). We (passengers) leave
an hour or so later after we arrive at
the ai rport, go through immigration
and are taken .to our plane. All is
ready for takeoff as soon as our pi-
lots receive the call by phone "No-
vember Triple-One Alpha Charlie
cleared for takeoff."
At the airport in Swaziland we
were greeted by many officials and
loaded into waiting cars and driven
to a very nice hotel, the Royal
Swaziland Hotel and Spa. Our
takeoff time at Johannesburg tha t
morning was 9:45 a.m., arrival in
Swazi land 10:30.
At 12: 30 we departed for the pal-
ace . We drove through two sets of
armed gates manned by brightly
un ifor med guards which opened for
us upon identification and drove
along a beautiful, tree-lined private
roa dway to the palace. At a simple
frame building I was ushered in, the
others following behind me into the
throne room, which would ha ve
been the parlor if it were a resi-
dence.
King in Tribal Dress
The king is now 76, has been king
(Sobhuza) 55 years - since age 21.
He was in native tribal costume,
bare feet, a wraparound sort of
shawl and a pair of feathers stuck
into his hair at the back of his head.
It is a small country of only
454,000 population wedged in be-
tween northeast South Africa and
southwestern Mozambique. It is not
one of the world's richest countries,
having a per-capita income of only
$280.
The prime minister in his official
dress uniform also met me at the
entra nce to the palace and accom-
panied us into the meeting with His
Maj esty the king. We had a real
j oll y visit with His Majesty. Swazi-
DINNER - Mr. Armstrong hosted
and spoke at a dinner for the king
and his cabinet.
worn. However, we had all dressed
. in dark suits and semiformal attire,
which was quite all right for the
occ asion .
Speech on Radio
The prime minist er made a very
sho rt introd uctory speech, perhaps
two minutes. Then Mr. Rader spoke
on the AICF and int roduced me ,
and I spo ke exactl y 30 minutes. It
was taped and will be used as a
We flew on to Port Elizab eth .
ha ving to make a stop at Durban to
clear immigr at ion and cust oms on
reentering the Republic of Sout h
Africa. Her e we all had to leave the
pl ane and go insid e the airp ort to
clear immig ra tion with our pass-
ports.
At thi s point in my writi ng I was
interru pted by a visi t from the doc-
tor. I'd hoped that by tomorrow.
Friday, I would be able to put the
land' s inde pe ndence has been guar-
an teed by Great Brit ain sinc e 1881.
That eve ni ng I hosted a dinner at
the hot el atte nded by very high offi-
cia ls, heads of all government de-
partments and their wives, with the
prime minist er sitt ing in the middle
of the speaking table bet ween Mr.
Rader and me. About the time the
dessert was bein g served I arose,
asked for attention , mentioned my
very enjoyable meeting with His
Majesty the king that afternoon and
proposed a toast to the king.
Incidentall y, we were quite sur-
prise d on arriving in the ban quet
roo m t hat nigh t. Mos t of the lea di ng
officials were dr essed in tuxedos
with bl ack ties . A very few were in
loud-colored special tribal costumes.
We (our own party) all had tuxed os
but had not brought them from the
plane, supposing the y would not be
Swaziland radio program. This was
at the ' government's request. We
were asked by the prime minister to
return to the country as soon as pos-
si ble on our next visit.
Next morning we were sched uled
to fly to the Transkei , which ga ined
its independence as a free bl ack
sta te in October. We had already
met the new prime minister, who
had flown in to Joh annesburg to
meet me in June. Our sched ule
ca lled for tak eoff at the ai rport at
9: 30 a.m. Wednes day, a meeting
wit h the pr ime mi nister at II a.m.
and an address before service clubs
at I p.m. , with airport departure at
2:30 p.m.
However, when we learned of
condition s not be ing overly friendly
between Swaziland and the Tran s-
kei , we decided to postpone the
Transkei visit.
sock and sho e on my left foot and
get on with our crowded schedule.
But the ankl e is still swollen, and it
is impossible for the shoe to go on.
The doct or suggested it would be
better to put the left ankle in a cast
in order that I may leave here eit he r
tomorrow, Friday, or at the lat est by
Sunday. I have now returned from
th e doctor's office with a heavy cast
on the left ank le. I hop e it won ' t last
lon ger tha n two wee ks.
We do have a heavy schedule
ahea d for the next two weeks in
South Africa. Mr. Rad er called me
fro m South-West Africa by tele-
ph one yes terday. They are getti ng
things set up for a futur e campaign
there. He is flying on to Kimberl ey
for a 6 p.m. pre ss con ference and to
pinch-hit for me for a Rot ary Club
speech at 8 p.m. I wa s suppos ed to
ha ve a meeting tomorrow afternoon
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PHOTO REQUEST - King Sobhuza of Swaziland, shaking hands with Mr. Armstrong, requested a group photo. South-
ern Africa Regional Director Bob Fahey (second from left) looks on. . ~
with the mayor of Kimberley. I was
scheduled for a diamond-mine tour
tomorrow afternoon and to fly on to
Johannesburg tomorrow night. I
hope I can at least do that.
Next Monday I am scheduled for
a meeting with Minister H. H. 'Smit
at II :30 and a I p.m. luncheon with
Minister Piet Koornhof. They are,
respectively, minister for public af-
fairs and minister of education.
Tuesday I speak at the Johannes-
. burg Rotary Club , at 3 p.m., meet-
ing with the mayor at 4:30 and a
Zionist group and friends at 7
o'clock, followed by another Rotary
Club meeting.
Three Appearances a Day
And so on, averaging three appear-
ances, meetings or speeches per day
for the week. The week of Novem-
ber 28, Monday, a Bible study is
scheduled for Salisbury; Monday at
9:30, a meeting with President John
Wrathall of Rhodesia and an after-
noon press-TV conference; on Tues-
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day morning a meeting with the
mayor, and that afternoon a meet-
ing with the prime minister, Ian
Smith; Wednesday a lunch with one
of the ministers of the government,
and 8 o'clock a Zionist lecture.
Then we return to Johannesburg,
and that is as far as I have the
schedule at hand as of now. I hope I
can make it all from here, with the
heavy cast on my left foot.
Then back to Rome and a few
days in London to check on moving
my personal things from my home
and things not sold with the college
at Bricket Wood.
I will try to keep our Plain Truth
readers more closely informed re-
garding my personal travel and ex-
periences in the future. Hope to be
back home in. Pasadena early in De-
cember, for at least a few days .
But this world is MOVING FAST to
its very END, and I have so MUCH to
report all over! Front pages of this
week's Time and Newsweek maga-
zines are " Poland, a Dangerous Dis-
content" and "After Tito, What ?"
Every week more and more the
news shows this world FALLING
APART RAPIDLY.
I've sent in somewhere around
eight to 10 articles, including co-
worker letters, articles for The Plain
Truth, and others, including this.
I am driving myself on and on
harder than ever, and even though
forced to be a virtual prisoner in this
hotel suite for a week I have turned
out a big volume of articles you will
be reading. God is revealing more
and more TRUTH to my mind.
I need your prayers as never be-
fore . My BIGGEST and GREATEST
WORK is yet to be done. I must stay
alive and be filled with youthful
VIGOR, DYNAMIC POWER more and
more.
With deepest love and prayers.
InJesus' name,
BORNAGAIN
(Continuedfrom page 3)
" the Kingdom" is some mysteriou s
ethe rea l nothing " in men ' s hearts."
Jesus sai d, "The time is ful filled.
a nd th e kin gd om of God is a t
hand. "
Wh at did He mean ? WHY had
th is Message never been procl a imed
before? The answer requires a pre-
history background.
There Was Once Peace on Earth
It isn't popular today to menti on the
exis tence of a de vil. But the Bibl e,
agai n and again, puts grea t empha -
sis on the pr esenc e of a real . literal
devil.
Bi bli cal reve la tio n sho ws th at
origi na lly th is ea rth was a place of
PEACE, happiness - a real utop ia. It
was then rul ed by the GOVERNMENT
OF GOD. Tha t Governme nt will be
once aga in RESTORED (Acts 3:20-21)
by Christ returning to earth in the
supreme POWERand GLORY of God!
But wha t happened? WHY don 't
we have that Government now?
Why is the re no PEACE on eart h?
When the ea rt h was origi na lly
created . the angels shouted for JOY!
(Job 38:7.) It was beau tiful. It was
PEACEFUL. It was popul ated by an -
gels' - not then by humans. It was
governed by the GOVERNMENT OF
GOD. There was a super archa nge l
- a che rub nam ed Lucifer (mea ning
" bri nge r of LIGHT") - one of two
cherubim whose wings stretche d
over the very thron e of God in
hea ven . Lu cifer was th oroughl y
trai ned in the administra tion of the
GOVERNMENT OF' GOD (Isa. 14: 12-
14; Ezek. 28: 12-17).
God governs by Hi s spiritual Law
- a Law based on the pri nci ple of
LOVE. Love. first. to God with sub-
mission a nd obedience, and sec-
on dly to His creatures - the way of
outgoing concern for the good and
we lfare of ot hers. But Lucifer' s
heart was lifte d up in vanit y, be-
ca use of his beau ty an d vas t knowl-
edge. He reb ell ed against God,
muti nied, set ou t to organize his an-
ge ls into an invading army and to
conquer GOD - in or de r to rule the
entire vas t UNIVERSE. This removed
th e Governme nt of God from the
ea rth. But also it disquali fied Luci-
fer as ea rth's rul er. However, the
ve ry pr incipl e of God's Govern me nt
req uires that the rul er ret ain offi ce
unt il a successo r quali fies and is in-
ducted into office.
Lucifer 's nam e was cha nged to
Sa ta n, the devil. His ange ls became
de mo ns. As a result of this universal
reb elli on on ea rth, un iversal de-
struction and chaos struck the sur-
face of the ea rth. In six days God re-
sha ped the earth's surface (Genes is
I), crea ting fauna and flora - and
MAN!
When Man Appeared
God formed MAN, not after any ani-
mal kind, but in God's own liken ess
- not of spi rit compos ition as is
God, but of mat er ial flesh and
blood. The first man, Adam, fat he r
of the huma n race, allowe d Sa ta n's
atti tude of REBELLI ON to enter his
heart, fai ling to qu al ify as Sa ta n's
successor.
Whe n Jesus was baptized by Joh n
(Mark 1:9-11), immediately He un -
de rwen t the mos t tita nic st ruggle
eve r, in Hi s temptat ion by the devi l
(verses 12- 13; Ma tt. 4: I-II ).
Jesus had come to qual ify to re-
place Sa ta n - to restore the Gov-
ernment of God on earth, and br ing
back WORLD PEACE! But, as the first
Ada m had undergone and ~ u c
cumbed to Sat an 's temptati on , Jesus
had to face and overcome thi s di s-
qu ali fied Sat an .
Jesus underwent thi s test under
th e most trying and difficult condi-
tion s possibl e. He had bee n almos t
tota lly depl et ed of physical stre ngth
by fas ting 40 days and nights - no
food and no wa ter ! Yet eve n in thi s
physical weakness. He was ma de the
stronger SPIRITUALLY.
Few have eve r rea lized the stu-
pendous st ruggle that took place in
that crucial tempt ation . Jesus re-
sisted Sa ta n's sup reme temptatio ns.
He did it by quoting Scripture and
OBEYING GOD. He proved un der the
maximum possibl e test t hat He
would obey God's laws and admi n-
ister God's GOVERNMENT fai thfully.
The n, in utt er physical wea kness but
su pre me spi rit ua l st re ng t h. He
pr oved He was Sata n's Master . by
giVing Sat an a crisp command to
leave - and the defeated Sat an
slunk away! .
Then ( Mark I : 14), having qua li-
fied for the exec utive admi nist ra tion
of the Governme nt of God on eart h,
Jesus ca me int o Galilee, sayi ng, as
quot ed above, "The time is fulfilled,
a nd th e kin gd om of God is a t
hand" ! (Verse 15.)
WHY the News Was NEW
Ho w was the time fulfilled?
WHY was the Kingdom of God
then at hand - and not before?
Simply because the wonde rful
news of the comi ng Kin gdom of
God could not be announced UNTIL
a successor had QUALIFIED to re-
pl ace Sat an as ea rth's ruler!
At last the Kin gdom of God -
GOD' S GOVERNMENT ove r the ea rth
- was at hand! At last . it was as-
sured, and the time was fulfilled !
The One who had qu alified to rul e
the ea rth was now free to anno unce
His coming Government!
WHY Kingdom Not Yet Set Up
Yet Jesus was not going to take over
the reig n immediately. There we re a
number of reasons:
I ) God had set a definite PLAN.
wi th a defi nite time-p rogram, for
working out His PURPOSE here be-
low! It is a 7,OOO-year plan of seven
millenni al "days," of which the first
seven litera l days of re-creat ion
wer e a type. The first six of these
mill ennia were allotted for man ,
of his own free volition (thou gh
swayed by Satan) to go his own way .
Also, in effect, they were all ott ed as
th e six mill ennial "days" for Sat an's
"la bo r" of deception over humani ty,
to be followed by the millennial
" Sabba th," in which Sa tan will ob-
serve enforced rest from his work of
deceiving the nations, and God wi ll
teach human ity HISTRUTH!
2) Jesus. in God's PLAN, was first
to choose and teach discipl es to be-
come apos tles, to carryon the proc-
lamati on of the GOOD NEWS - and
to becom e the founda tion of Hi s
Churc h.
3) Christ is goi ng to set up a world
govern me nt ove r all earth's nati ons
only with the administr ation of a
thorou ghl y train ed and experience d
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organization. The first six thousand
years of human experience has
proved abundantly that man, under
Satan's sway, is utterly incapable of
ruling himself. Human-devised gov-
ernments always have failed to
bring world PEACE. Yet man, even
now, seems unwilling to admit that
fact. Men are still trying, in vain, to
work and fight for PEACE. And that
!s where being "born again" comes
m.
God's Government will be DIVINE
GOVERNMENT, by the saints con-
verted into divine SPIRIT PERSONS,
born of GOD! As those born of
humans are human beings, so those
born of the divine God will be DI-
VINE BEINGS, having been given IM-
MORTALITY! They shall be born into
- enter into - inherit the KINGDOM
OF GOD.
Kingdom Is a Family
A KINGDOM is a nation composed
of people, as well as the GOVERN-
MENTOf that nation. The Kingdom
of GOD.is composed of the divine
FAMILY of God. The One Being we
habitually think of as GOD is the
FATHER of that Family.
Christ is a Son of God - a mem-
ber of that divine FAMILY, even as
we may be! That divine FAMILY is
the Kingdom of God.
There are five KINGDOMS - the
vegetable kingdom, the animal
kingdom, the human kingdom (we
are not of the animal kingdom, er-
roneous education to the contrary
notwithstanding!), the angel king-
dom - and the GODKingdom!
God (Heb. Elohim - the uni-plu-
ral name, meaning more than one
Person, forming the ONE God) said,
<, "Let us make man in OUR image,
after OUR likeness ." We were made
of material flesh, but in the form
and shape of God, and with MINDS
on a totally different plane than ani-
mal brain. The human family was
made so that we might be able to
receive God's Spirit, and become
His children. Animals were NOT so
made.
In God's wonderful plan for
working out His PURPOSE here be-
low, God has allotted the time
periodbetween Jesus ' first coming
in human flesh, and His second
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Nicodemus understood
what is meant by
being born. He knew it
meant being delivered
from his mother's womb.
It meant being
delivered into the world!
coming in power and glory, for the
calling of some to receive His Spirit,
and be spiritually educated and
trained, through His Word, to be-
come rulers with Christ when He
sets up His KINGDOM.
The Crux of Salvation
4) In order that man might be rec-
onciledto God, Jesus also came for
the express purpose of DEATH, by
His shed blood paying for us, in our
stead, the death penalty we have
incurred as the penalty of sin. In
order that we might be given God's
gift of ETERNAL LIFE, Jesus' resurrec-
tion from the dead was necessary
before we could receive eternal life.
5) The PLAN called for Jesus' as-
cension to God's throne in heaven -
the throne of the Government of
God over the UNIVERSE - to become
our High Priest , during these years
of training and spiritual devel-
opment of the heirs of God to be
used in the executive administration
of the Government of God when
Christ does set up that Government
over earth's nations.
6) Jesus could not induct Himself
into the office while here on earth in
human form . It was necessary for
Him, as explained in the parable of
the pounds (Luke 19), to go to
heaven to there receive the authority
of the Kingdom from God (the
Father) - and to be CROWNED! The
coronation ceremony will take place
in heaven at God's throne, before
Christ's return in POWER and
GLORY!
7) Then He must return in all that
POWER and GLORY and supreme au-
thority to RULE!
Those are the reasons why Jesus
did not then, immediately, set up or
establish the Kingdom of God!
But even Jesus' own disciples
could never seem to understand that
He was not going to set up the
Kingdom of God immediately. It is
human to want things NOW!
WHY Jewish Rulers Hated Message
The Jewish rulers of Jesus' day , also,
thought He was proclaiming a gov-
ernment to be set up immediately -
to overthrow the Roman Empire,
then ruling Judea as a vassal state.
One of these rulers of the Jews
was a man named Nicodemus. He
was a Pharisee, and the Pharisees
were hostile to Jesus, because of this
new Gospel. Nicodemus, however,
wanted to meet this astonishing
Messenger and discuss it with him.
To avoid criticism from his col-
leagues, he came to Jesus by night.
"We know," he said, "that you
are a teacher come from God."
The "we" implies that the divine
identity of the Messenger and the
source of His message was known to
the Pharisees.
Judea was a vassal state, under
the rule of the Romans. The Ro-
mans were shrewd enough to force
leaders among the Jews to adminis-
ter most of the details of govern-
ment, under higher Roman officials.
Of course, the Roman rule was pro-
tected by occupying military forces .
This system made life for the Jewish
sub-rulers very desirable - a status
worth maintaining.
At once Jesus perceived the im-
port of Nicodemus' first words . His
Message was the good news of the
coming WORLD GOVERNMENT of
GOD - that is, the KINGDOM OF
GOD- the GOVERNMENT of God.
These Jewish rulers feared that
Message. Jesus was of their race - a
Jew. If they did not oppose Him,
they feared being shorn of their
power, and perhaps put to death as
subversives threatening the over-
throw of the Roman government.
And the Pharisees thought Jesu s
proclaimed the immediate take-over
of that rule!
Not of This Age
Therefore Jesus did not wa ste
words. He struck straight through to
the crux point - the Kingdom of
God is not of this world - this time
- this age - but of the WORLD TO-
MORROW - a different and a follow-
ing AGE. Not composed of humans,
bu t of immortal s - the GOD FAM-
ILY!
SO Jesus sai d, " Except a man be
born again, he cannot see the ki ng-
dom of God " (John 3:3).
Not ice carefully, ple ase - being
" bo rn again" has a vita l connecti on
wi th the Kingdom of God - with
THEFACT that it is not of thi s time -
thi s age. And - I rep eat - Jesus'
Gospel - His Message - was the
Kingdom of God .
But Jesus' abrupt ope ning sta te-
ment left Nicod emus confused. Th e
religious leaders, an d the hu ndreds
of denominations and sects profes-
sing Christianity today are confused
and deceived! Today' s religion ists
put a different twist on it than did
Nicod emus, howe ver.
Nicode mus did understand clearl y
wha t is meant by being born. He
kn ew it meant being deli vered from
his mother 's womb. It meant bein g
del iver ed into the WORLD! Today' s
rel igious lea ders read into it a differ-
ent meaning! Wh at Nicode mus
could not understand was how - in
wha t manner - anyo ne could be
born AGAIN! And of course, being
ca rnal-minde d, he could only con-
ceive of a second physical birth. But
he kn ew wha t being born meant!
Born Human a Second Time?
Pu zzled, he asked: " How can a man
be born when he is old? Ca n he
en te r the second t ime int o hi s
womb, and be born?" He
~ ' l s e d about what is
BORN. What Nic o-
mderstand was a
iou ght Jesus was
. econd human birth.
... na ble to conceive of any
o u t a second physical birth - his
mind co uld not grasp spiri t ua l
things.
Now Jesus had mad e clear that
th e ' Kingdom of God is some thi ng
th at ca n be seen - but not until or
UNLESS one is "born aga in." No t
during thi s physical lifetime! Also,
verse 5, the Kingdom of God is
somet hing a man may enter into -
but not unt il after he is born AGAIN
- another and entirel y di fferent
bi rth.
The apostle Paul made
clear that the Kingdom
of God is something
a human may inherit, but
not in this age - not
while he is composed
of material flesh.
Then Jesus ca me quickly to the
point - that the Kingdom of God is
not of this present human LIFE in
thi s pre sent WORLD - it is not of
thi s TIME - thi s present life-TIME -
or age - i t is the succeeding age -
and the life to come.
Here is the crux point that ex-
plains it all : Jesus sa id:
"That whi ch is born of the flesh is
flesh : and that which is born of the
Spi rit IS spi rit."
Man is now flesh - human . He is
MATERIAL SUBSTANCE. " Dust thou
art," sai d God to Ada m, "and unto
dust shalt th ou re t urn." Aga in,
"And the Lord God for me d man of
the du st of th e g ro u n d, and
br eathed into his nostrils the breath
of life; and man became a living
soul" (Gen. 3: 19 and 2: 7).
Those Born Again To
BE Spirit
But , said Jesus plainly, when one is
born of the Spirit HE WILL BE
SPIRIT! Look at it! Read it in your
own Bible.
The Kingdom of God will be
composed of SPIRIT BEINGS- not of
humans!
At birth of human flesh, one is
deli ver ed from his mother 's womb
int o this worl d. Wh en born of the
Spi rit one will be deli ver ed from the
CHURCH of God (physical) int o the
KI NGDOM of God (a Kin gdom of
SPIRITBEINGS! ).
Man is now COMPOSED of flesh -
mat erial substa nce - matt er.
When BORN AGAIN he will BE
spiri t - a SPIRIT BEI NG, no longer
human. He will be COMPOSED of
spiri t - of spi rit com posit ion - with
life inherent - with self-contai ning
life - not then existing by the
br eath of air and the circulation of
blood .
Of the next age whe n the King-
dom of God will rule the . world -
the next LIFE - Jesus said "they nei-
ther marry, nor ar e given in mar-
riage, but are as the angels of
God . . ." (Matt. 22:30). Marriage is
a physical , fleshl y un ion . In the age
of God 's Kingdom - when " born
again" - we sha ll BE spi rit, .not
flesh. Born of God as SPIRIT BEINGS,
no longer human. Angels are spirits
- compose d of spi rit (Heb. 1:7).
Jesus did not say we sha ll then be
angels - but AS the angels - sexless
and compos ed of SPIRIT. Ange ls are
spirit beings - creat ed as such - bu t
not begotten and BORN of God as
God's own born chi ldren. We there-
fore shall be much higher than
angels!
Jesus explained this further to
Ni codemus:
"The wind bloweth where it list-
eth, and thou hearest the sound
there of, but ca nst not tell whence it
come th, and whither it goeth: so is
everyone tha t is born of the Spi rit"
(Jo hn 3:8).
You ca nnot see wind. Wind is
compared to spirit. It is INVISIBLE.
Th at's why mortal FLESH, as we now
are, ca nnot SEE the Kingdom of
God. Th ose who inh erit it will be
spi rit - normall y invisi ble to eyes
still human.
Energy of an A-Bomb?
Je su s wa s co mpa ri n g a lso th e
POWER of one born of the Spirit to
that of wind. A scientist of the U.S.
Weather . Bureau, Dr. J. Murray
Mitchell , Jr. , Research Clima tolog-
ist , sa id that the ene rgy of one aver-
age hurrican e is much greater th an
an A-bomb such as destroyed Hi ro-
shima. I am quite certa in that no
human claiming to have been "bo rn
again" in his human life is ca pa ble
of exerting a tiny frac tion of th at
kind of ene rgy. But - as I sha ll
show in th is article, one when he
becomes spirit will have that kind of
POWER!
Not While Flesh and Blood
The apos tle Paul made clear that
the Kin gdom of God is something a
human may INHERIT, but not in THIS
AGE - not whi le he is compos ed of
material flesh. He may, now, be-
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come only an HEIR, not YET an in-
heritor! .
"Now thi s I say, brethren, th at
flesh and blood cannot inherit th e
kingdom of God; ne ither doth cor-
ruption inher it in corrupt ion "
(I Cor. 15:50).
Leading up to thi s verse, Paul had
made it very clear.
"The first man is of the ea rth,
ea rthy [human] : the second man is
the Lord from heaven [a di vine
GODBeing]" (l Cor. 15:47).
This is what Jesus was say ing to
Nic odemus. He was of th e earth,
ea rthy - human - he was flesh, not
spirit. He was born of the flesh, so
that' s what he was - FLESH. Wh en
one is born of the Spirit, he will BE
SPIRIT.
BUT WE CANNOT BE spirit in this
pr esent age.
THERE IS A TIME ELEMENT CON-
cERNEDWITH BEING BORNAGAIN!
Continue, now, in I Corinthians
15:
"As is the earthy, such are they
also that are ea rt hy" (ve rse 48).
That 'is pr ecisely what Jesus was ex-
pl aining to Ni codemus. He was
born of the flesh - he WAS flesh . He
was born of the earth - he was
-earthy. And so are we all! And,
same verse, ". . . and as is th e heav-
enly, such are they also that are
heavenly." Bu t for us humans,
WHEN? Not in this life!
Next verse: "And as we ha ve
borne the image of the ea rthy, we
sha ll [future - resurrection] also
bear the image of th e heavenl y"
(verse 49) . As we are now flesh, we
shall be SPIRIT - at the resurrecti on .
Th at is when we sha ll be " BORN
AGAIN" - whe n we sha ll see, enter
int o, the Kingdom of God - when
we are spirit - at the resurrect ion !
"Now this I say, br ethren, that
flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of God ; neither doth cor-
ruption inhe rit incorruption. Be-
hold, I shew you a mystery; We
sha ll not all slee p [be dead] , but we
sha ll all be changed, in a momen t, in
th e twi nkling of an eye, at the last
trump: for the trumpet sha ll soun d,
and th e dead sha ll be ra ised in-
corru ptible, and we [the then living]
sha ll be changed" (verses 50-52).
There is the TIME when we may be
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Now in being "born
again," the process of
this birth begins when
God's divine spirit-life is
imparted to us by
the Holy Spirit,
from His very person.
born agai n - when we may see, en-
ter into, inherit the Kingdom -
when " BORN AGAIN" - and NOT BE-
FORE!
How CHANGED When Born Again
How shall we be cha nged? The ne xt
words answer!
"For thi s corru ptible [flesh, as we
now are] mu st put on inco rru ption
[spirit - that which is born of God
is spirit] and this mort al must put on
immorta lity." Be changed from ma-
teri al flesh to spirit!
Until born again, we cannot see
th e Kingdom of God - (Jes us to
Ni codemus, John 3:3).
Until born again, we cannot enter
into the Kingdom of God - (Jes us
to Nicodemus, John 3:5) .
Until no longer flesh, but changed
into SPIRIT, we ca nno t enter into the
Kingdom of God - (Jes us to Ni co-
demus, John 3:6-8).
Whil e still flesh and blood (as
Nicodemus was and we are) we can-
not inherit the Kin gdom of God -
(Paul t o th e Co ri n t h i a ns,
I Cor. 15:50).
Until the resurrecti on, at Christ's
coming, we sha ll not be changed
from corruptible flesh into in-
corru ptible SPIRIT (Pa ul - I Co r.
15:50-5 3 and verses 22-23). .
Until the resurrecti on, therefore,
we cannot see, enter into, or inherit
the Kingdom of God. WE CANNOT
BE BORN AGAIN UNTIL THE RESUR-
RECTION!
Now Heirs - Not Yet Inheritors
While in our pr esent sta tus, born of
the flesh and composed of flesh, we
cannot see, enter into, or inhe rit the
Kingdom of God. Notice, now, the
sta tus of the trul y converted Chris-
tian, in thi s life - thi s world:
" Now if any man have not the
Spirit of Christ , he is none of his"
(Rom. 8:9) . Unless one has received
the Holy Spirit, and thi s Spirit is
dwelling in him, he is not a Chris-
tian. Joining a church does not
make one a Ch ristian. Receiving
and foll owing God 's Spirit does!
Holy Spirit Entering Compares to
Sperm Entering Ovum
But now see how God's Spirit enter-
ing and dwelling in one compa res to
the physical sperm impregnating th e
ovum - the imparting of eternal
SPIRIT life, lat er to produce .- to
bring forth - a SPIRIT PERSON! A
fertilized ovum - an embryo - is
NOT a born human person . Life
from the father has been imparted
to it - he has begotten it - but
neither embryo nor fetu s is YET a
born person. In the sa me manner
the Spirit-begotten human is not ,
ye t, a SPIRIT PERSON or BEI NG, as
Jesus sa id he sha ll be when born
agai n!
Continue : " But if the Spi rit of
him that rai sed up Jesus from the
dead dwell in you, he that raise d up
Christ from the dead sha ll also
qu icken your mortal bod ies by his
Sp ir it th at d well eth in yo u"
. (ve rse 11).
UNDERSTAND THIS! Ther e is a di-
rect comparison between having
been born of the flesh, and bein g
born AGAI N of God. Jesus sa id that
whi ch is born of the flesh is flesh - a
born human. Th at which is born of
th e Spirit (God) is spirit - a born
SPIRITPERSON!
A mortal human life starts when a
sperm cell from the body of the
father impregnates - imparts physi-
ca l LIFE to - an ovum (egg cell) in
the mother. At thi s point the father
beget s, sires. He does not " bri ng
forth" : the mother does that , lat er.
Hi s part in the PROCESS lead ing to
fina l birth is then done. BUT THERE
IS A TIME ELEMENT. At the TIME of
begettal , birth (parturition) has not
YET occur red.
It is necessary to make this ex-
planati on, at th is point, becau se the
popular decep tion of a deceived tra-
dition al "Chris tianity" is to claim
tha t when one "rece ives Chr ist" -
"acce pts Chris t" - " p rofesses
Christ" - or first receives God's
Holy Spirit to dwell in him, that he
is already "BORN AGAIN."
First, then, notice the physical
type and comparison.
The TIME Element
In human physical reproduction,
there is a TIME ELEMENT. From im-
pregnation - begettal on the part of
the father - having conceived on the
part of the mot her - to BIRTH, or
parturition, or being delivered from
the mother's womb is a TIME ELE-
MENT of nine months.
That nine-month period is called
gestation. Upon conception, the now
fertilized ovum is called an embryo.
A few months later, it is called a
fetus. But during this nine-month
period of gestation, we do not speak
of the embryo-fetus as having been
born. It is in the PROCESS toward
birth.Tt is the child of its parents.
But it is then the unborn child of its
parents. The father has already be-
gotten it - sired it. But the mother
has not yet given birth to it. Yet it is,
during the gestation period, the un-
born child of its parents.
Now in being "born again," the
PROCESS of this birth begins when
GOD'S divine SPIRIT-LIFE is im-
parted to us by the Holy Spirit, from
His very PERSON, entering to dwell
within us. Repeat, from Romans 8:
"But if the Spirit of him that
raised up Jesus from the dead dwell
in you, he that raised up Christ from
the dead shall also quicken [change
to immortal spirit] your mortal bod-
ies by his Spirit that dwelleth in
yo u" (verse I I). This is describing
the same thing explained in I Corin-
thians 15:50-53, the resurrection .
Millions of sincere professing
Christians believe that whe n they
profess Christ (or receive His Holy
Spirit) they are "born again." What
actually happens is this :
The Church Our Mother
When one, after repentance, faith
and baptism receives the Holy
Spirit, the Spirit of God puts him
into - baptizes him into - God's
Church. The Church is called the
Body of Christ. So we read: "By one
Spirit are we all baptized into one
body" (I Cor. 12: 13).
Again, the Church is called "Jeru-
Scrlpture after scripture,
analogy after analogy,
comparison after
comparison, shows that
being born of God is a
process in which
there is a time element.
sa lem above," or "the heavenly Je -
rusalem" (Heb. 12:22-23) . Now
notice, in Galatians 4:26: "But Jeru-
salem which is above is free, which
is the mother of us all."
The analogy is this: When begot-
ten by God the Father by receiving
His Holy Spirit, we are put into the
Church, which during this gestation
period is our MOTHER.
The human mother of the fetus
within her womb serves the function
of feeding her unborn child with
physical food, so that it . may de-
velop and grow physically. And also
she carries it where she may best
protect it from physical injury or
harm, until parturition - delivery
from her womb.
The spiritual mother - t he
Church - is commissioned to "feed
the flock" (I Pet. . 5:2) through the
ministry which God has set in the
Church "for the perfecting of the
saints ... for the edifying of the
body of Christ, till we all come in
the unity of the faith, and of the
knowledge of the Son of God, unto
a perfect man ..." (Eph. 4: 11-13).
Just as the human fetus develops
and grows physically during the
PRE-birth gestation period, so WE,
after begettal by God's Spirit, de-
velop and grow SPIRITUALLY in PRE-
birth state.
But not only is the Church to feed
the members on the Word of God -
spiritual food - but also to protect
these conceived but yet unborn chil-
dren of God from spiritual harm, as
the very next verse shows: "That we
hencefort h be no more children,
tossed to an d fro, and carried about
with every wind of doctrine, by t he
sleight of men, and cunning crafti-
ness, whereby they lie in wait to
deceive .. ." (Eph. 4: 14).
Then, at the time of the resurrec-
tion, we in the Church - the spiri-
tual Mother - shall be DELIVERED
from her, and born into - brought
fort h into - the Ki ngdom - the
spirit-composed FAMILY of God.
Sons of God NOW
Now, fur ther: "For as many as are
led by the Spirit of God, they are
the sons of God" (Rom. 8: 14). The
unborn child in his mother's womb
is the child of his father and mother,
though not yet born - de livered
from the womb. So are we, if God's
Spirit dwells in us - if we are being
led by God's Spirit - children of
God. Yet, at this time, we are in the
gestation state, not yet that parturi-
tion. And only HEIRS. Not inher-
itors!
Continue: "And if children, then
heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs
with Christ: if so be that we suffer
with him, that we may be [future -
at resurrection] also glorified to-
gether" (verse 17).
Now see how this passage desig-
nates the resurrection into GLORY -
when we shall BE spirit - as a
BIRTH!
"For the earnest expectation of
the creature [creation] waiteth for
the manifestation of the sons of
God" - that is the time of Christ's
coming to REIGN, and of the resur-
rec tion to (being born of) SPIRIT
composi tion - " . . . because the cre-
ation [RSV] itself also shall be deliv-
ered [a birth] from the bondage of
corruption into the glorious liberty
of the children of God. For we know
that the whole creation groaneth
and travaileth in pain together unti l
now" (verses 19-22).
Here is another comparison: we
shall be delivered from this world
(the Church is in, though not of this
world) into the glorious WORLD TO-
MORROW and the Kingdom which
shall rule it.
The CREATION is waiting for this
time of Christ's coming, the resur-
rection, and the Kingdom of God.
Because the creation shall be DE-
LI VERED from the bondage of
corruption. Not now de livered -
SHALL BE - at the resurrection time!
Although this is not referring di-
rec tly to our being born again, it IS a
direct comparison to the BIRTH of a
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child be ing DELI VERED fr om it s
mother's womb.
The resurrection - the time when
we ar e changed to BE spi rit and to
INHERIT the Kingdom - will be a
time of DELI VERY FROM the bondage
of corruptible flesh and from thi s
world of SIN- AREAL BIRTH!
Christ Born a Second Time
by the Resurrection
Co ntinue in Romans 8:
"For whom he did foreknow, he
also did pr edestinat e to be con-
form ed to the image of his Son, that
he [Jesus] mi ght be the firstborn
among many brethren" (verse 29).
Now compare with Romans 1:3-
4: "Concerning his Son Jesus Christ
our Lord, which was mad e of the
seed of David according to the
flesh ; and declared to be the Son of
God ... by the resur rection from the
de ad."
Jesus was, in the human flesh -
His first birth - a descendant of
David, and, by the resurrect ion
from the dead - (bo rn AGAIN) - the
Son of God, now no longer human,
but compose d of SPIRIT - a Sp irit
Bein g. He thus becam e the FIRST SO
BORNof many brethren who shall be
BORNAGAINat the time of the resur-
rection of those who ar e Ch rist' s.
Of course we understand, and so
did Paul in writing the above, tha t
Jesus was also the Son of God while
in the human flesh. Though born of
a human woman, He was sired by
God. But this .is comparing the two
births - the one from the human
Mary, a s descended from the
human David - the other, by His
resurrection to glory , as Son of God
by Hi s resurrection, in the same
manner we may be.
Emphatic all y thi s does NOT imply
that Jesus was a sinner needing sal-
va tion. He was the pioneer, sett ing
us the example, that we, too, may be
BORNof God.
When Born Again What Shall We Be
Like?
Wh en we are born again , wha t sha ll
we be like?
Here is the answer: "For our con -
versa tion [citizenship] is in heaven ;
from whence also we look for the
Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ : who
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"Thou crownedst him
[kingship] with glory
and honour, and didst set
him over the works
of thy hands ..." - that
is, God's creation
(Hebrews 2:7).
sha ll change our vile body [FLESH],
tha t it ma y be fashioned like unto
his glor ious body . . ." (Phil. 3:20-
21). And what is Christ's GLORIOUS
bod y like? Hi s eyes are as flames of
fire - Hi s face bri ght as the sun at
full strength - Revelat ion I : 14-16.
A TIME When Begotten But Not YET
Born
Thus, scripture after scripture -
ana logy afte r ana logy - compa rison
aft er comparison - sho ws that
being BORN of God is a PROCESS in
which there is a time eleme nt. Ju st
as being born of the human flesh is
a process.
At the time when the father begets
and the mother conceives - of the
un ion of spe rm cell and ovum - the
fertilized ovum becomes an embryo.
But it is not yet deli ver ed from the
womb - not yet born! And will not
be for nine months. A pr egnancy is
in progress. Yet during thi s period of
ph ysical de velopment and growth, it
is the unborn child of its parents.
In like manner, at the time when
the Spirit Father, God, begets a
human with the Spirit (the spiritual
counterpart of the physical sperm) -
the Hol y Spirit - he becomes a son
of God! He is then already a son of
God.
But he is still human - he is still
material flesh and blood . He must
now undergo a peri od (until death,
the resurrect ion) of spiritual de vel-
opment and growth. He is in the
gestation state in the PROCESS to-
ward being born. He is in the
CHURCH of God, but the Church is
not the KINGDOM of God.
The Church is composed of
human, flesh-and-blood children of
God. And, flesh and blood cannot
see, cannot ent er into , cannot inherit
the Kingdom of God . The Kingdom
of God is mad e up of spirit-com-
posed children of God. Th e Spirit-
begotten human in the Church is in
the process of being born of God ,
BUT he has not yet entered the
Kingdom of God. He has not yet
been BORNof God.
He is in the gestation state toward
spi rit-BIRTH. but not yet BORNof the
Spirit. He yet has a lot of spiritua l
developing and growing to do - ac-
quiring the spiritua l character-im-
age of God.
POWER Greater Than Energy of
Wind
There is an oth er passage , under-
stood by almost none, that reveals
our as tonishing transcendent pot en-
tial!
It begins in Hebrews 2. verse 6.
But first , notice about Christ, in
chapter I :
"God . . . hath in these last days
spo ken unt o us by his Son, whom he
hath appointed heir of all things
[Moffatt and others, th e uni verse]. by
who m also he mad e the worlds ;
who. being the br ightness of his
glo ry, sta mpe d with God ' s own
character [Moffatt] and uphold ing
[sustaining] the uni verse by the
word of his power . . ." (Heb. I : 1-3).
ALL POWER in hea ven and earth
(Matt. 28:18) has been given to
Christ. He is now Chief Executi ve of
God' s Government of the UNIVERSE.
Now begin with Hebrews 2:6; a
citation from Psalms 8:4-6 :
"What is man, that thou a rt
mindful of him?"
Yes, why should the Great God
be concerned about us mort als?
WHY did He put us here on earth?
What is the PURPOSE of life - what
is our transcendent potential? It is
so far ab ove and beyond anything
you have thou ght or ima gined. it
seems shockingly incredible!
Can you belie ve it? Are you will-
ing to bel ieve what is now plainly
stated? Here comes the astonishing
an swer, beg inning verse 7:
"Thou mad est him a little lowe r
than the angels." Some translati ons
ha ve it, " for a little while lower than
the a ngels." Continue : " T ho u
crownedst him [kingship] with
GLORY and honour, and didst set
him over the works o f th y
hands . . ." - that is. God 's crea tion.
Co nti nue :
NOT YET the Universe!
"T ho u hast put ALL THINGS [Mof-
fatt : the UNIVERSE] in subjection un-
der his fee t. Fo r in that he put ALL
in subjectio n under him. he left
no t hing th at is not put und er
him . .. ." Ca n you gras p that ? Th e
entire vas t. endless UNIVERSE! But
th at is for BORNsons of God . Man is
not ye t BORN - except Christ only!
Conti nue . Here comes the answe r:
" ... But now [in thi s pre sent ges-
ta tion sta te] we see NOT YET all
things [the un iverse] put und er him"
(ve rse 8).
But wh at do we see. NOW?
" But we see JESUS. . . crowned
with glory and honou r" (verse 9).
Yes, as reveal ed in chapter I. Jesus
has alrea dy been give n t he exec u-
tive ad minis t ra tion of God ' s Gov-
ernmen t - t he KINGDOM of GOD -
over the entire UNIVERSE! Only. un-
til our tim e to inherit and possess
th e gove rn me n t o f EA RTH. a t
Christ's return. He is all owi ng Sat an
to continue on this earth his work of
decept ion . Now continu e:
" For it became him [Jesus]. for
who m are all things. and by who m
are all t hi ngs . in br inging man y sons
unto GLORY. to mak e the ca pta in
[margin . lead er - or for erunner.
pioneer - the One who has gone on
before us. as we are to follow] of
th eir sa lva tion per fect through suf-
ferings. For both he that sa nctifieth
and they who are sa nctified are all
of one : for whic h ca use he is not
as ha me d to call them brethren"
(ve rses 10- 11).
Christ First Born of Many
We are. as quoted befor e. heirs of
God . and j oint-heirs - as BRETHREN
- with Chr ist. He has gone on
ahead, throu gh a resurrecti on , to
GLORY as the pion eer!
He is the firstborn of man y br eth-
ren! He has I NHERITED "all things"
- the UNIVERSE! We are still heirs -
still in the ges ta tion stage of the pro-
cess of be ing BORN of God . Jesus is
now our Hi gh Priest , supe rvising
our spi ritua l de velopment - pr e-
paring us to be kings and priests,
reigning with Him!
As a physical babe must
grow physically,
so we in the ,Christian
life must grow in
spiritual knowledge and
character (II Pet. 3:18)
to become perfect.
The first thou sand years we sha ll
reign ON THE EARTH. Fo r He sha ll
have " made them kin gs and pri est s:
and they sha ll rei gn on the ea rth"
(Rev. 5: 10, RSV).
The First Thousand Years
For that first thousand years. J esus
is to reign on the th ron e of His
ea rt hly ancestor DAVID in Jerusalem
(l sa. 9:6-7). And. "he that over-
cometh, and keepeth my works unto
the end, to him will I give -power
over the nati on s: and he sha ll rule
th em wit h a rod of iro n . . ." (Rev.
2:26 -27). But how and fro m whe re
sha ll we rul e?
Jesus said, agai n. "To him th at
ov ercomet h will I gra nt to sit with
me in my th rone [at Jerusalem] .
eve n as I also ove rca me . and am
[now] set down wit h my Father in
his throne" (Rev. 3:2 1).
When BORN of God. we sha ll BE
spiri t. no longer human flesh and
blo od . We sha ll be give n POWER! As
Daniel reveal ed. the sa ints then
sha ll take the kingdoms of ea rt h's
nation s and RULE t hem - for the
first thousan d years.
And . . . aft er that? The passage in
Hebrews 2 shows that then . under
Christ, we sha ll be give n power to
rul e ove r the entire vas t un iverse -
lit erally ALL THINGS. For that is the
power that has been give n to Christ.
and we are joint-hei rs. to become
j oint-INHERITORSwit h Him.
All Power - The UNIVERSE
Most people have passed rig ht over
many vita l sta teme nts in the Bibl e.
not recogni zin g their tremendou s
import!
Let me give you a few. Ask your-
sel f, ha ve yo u ever recogn ized the
tru e import of these sta tements in
God's Word?
Mal/hew 28: 18: " And Jesus cam e
and spo ke un to them [after His res-
urrection]. sayi ng, ALL POWER is
given unto me in hea ven and in
ea rth."
Mal/ hew 11:27: Jesus said: "ALL
THINGS [the who le univer se] are de-
livered unto me of my Father . ..."
J ohn 3:35: "The Fathe r loveth the
Son . and hath give n ALL THINGS
int o his hand."
J ohn 13:3: During the last Pass-
ove r. " Je sus kn owin g th at th e
Father had give n ALL THINGS into
hi s hands. and that he was come
from God. and went to God . . .."
J ohn 16:15: " ALL THINGS that the
Father hath are mi ne . . . ."
I Corinthians 15:27: " For he [the
Father ] hath put ALL THINGS under
his [Christ' s] feet. But when he sai t h
ALL THINGS are put under him . it is
manifest that he [the Fat her] is ex-
ce pted. whic h did put ALL THINGS
under him. And when ALL THINGS
shall be subdued unto him. then
shall the Son also himself be subject
unt o him that put ALL THINGS under
him. that God may be all in all."
And - incredible. ye t tru e! - we.
in Chr ist. are mad e co-heirs wit h
Chr ist in thi s ultimat e supreme rul e.
Incid entall y. I Corinthians 15:27-
28. along wi th verses 22-26. in-
dicat es that our reign ove r the un i-
ve rs e sha ll fo llow t he th ousand
years' reign on th e ea rth.
Must GROW During Gestation
Human life starts with what the
Bibl e terms "corru ptible seed" -
physical male sperm. Divine life
s t a r ts with th at wh ich i s in-
corruptibl e - the Holy Spirit of
God enteri ng the human per son.
But as t he human embryo must
GROW till it becomes a fetus. which
mu st GROW to the point of bein g
born int o the human family, so the
Chr istian in whom di vin e life has
been sta rted by the gift of God ' s
incorruptible Spirit must GROW to-
wa rd perfect ion to be born into the
GOD fami ly. He will then be perfect .
un able to sin.
Peter gives an analogy of thi s:
" Being born again . . ." (I Pet.
I :23). Being - in proce ss of - not
having been - not yet an immortal
person - but being " bo rn again, not
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of corruptible seed, but of in-
corruptible ... ." (Other translations
use the term "begotten.") Greek: an-
nagennao - to beget anew -
(Young). Peter is here referring to
the process having started within us
by the incorruptible Spirit of God -
not as our human life was begotten
by human physical sperm. Peter
here shows that the Spirit of God is
the incorruptible "seed" that im-
parted the presence of eternal life
within us. Continue: " . . . By the
word of God, which liveth and
abideth for ever."
Peter continues, chapter 2:
"Wherefore .. . as newborn
babes . .. ." Not that we are already-
born perfect divine spirit persons
having entered into and inherited
God's Kingdom. He is comparing
the Christian's spiritual "gestation"
period to the growth of a newborn
human physical baby simply be-
cause it would be awkward indeed
to compare it to a physical embryo
or fetus. He is not saying we are
already born babes in God's King-
dom - but as - or like newborn
human babes. It is an analogy,
which Webster says is-a comparison
or "likeness between two things
... consisting in the resem blance not
of the things themselves , but of two
or more attributes, circumstances or
effects."
Peter is simply showing that, as a
newborn human babe must be
nourished and GROW physically
(even, for that matter, as must the
unborn fetus) , so Christians must
grow spiritually. Continue: " .. . De-
sire the sincere milk of the word"
(RSV has: "long for the pure spiri-
tual milk") "that ye may GROW
thereby" (I Pet. 2: 1-2). Paul styled it
"unto the perfect man" (Eph. 4: 13)
- unable to sin. When born again,
we shall not be helpless spirit BABES,
but spirit beings of perfection un-
able to sin. This Christian spiritual
GROWTH is in spiritual character
and knowledge in this present
human life. As a physical babe must
grow physically, so we in the Chris-
tian life must grow in spiritual
knowledge and character (see II Pet.
3: 18) to become PERFECT, which we
shall never attain UNTIL born as
spirit beings.
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The scriptures calling
Jesus the only begotten
Son of God all
apply to His begettal as
the human Son, His
first birth born of the
human mother, Mary.
The Comparison
During our converted human Chris-
tian life, we are already children of
God, as yet unborn. We have within
us, through the gift of the Holy
Spirit, the presence of ETERNAL LIFE
- Spirit life - divine life - BUT,
only from and through GOD. We do
not, yet, have any eternal life inher-
ent - of ourselves, independent of
God! And, WE COULD LOSE IT - be
aborted!
This compares to the unborn
ph ysical fetus in the gesta tion
period. It has human life - but only
through the umbilical cord and
FROM the mother - NOT indepen-
dently of itself. And it can be
aborted!
This is so clearly brought out in
the Bible, in I John 5:11-12: "And
this is the record, that God hath
given to us eternal life, and this life
is in his Son." It is not inherent in
us. We do not now in this life have
born life of our own, independent of
Him. Our contact with Him through
His Spirit is the umbilical cord
through which we are partaking of
eternal life from Him. Continue,
verse 12: "He that hath the Son
ha th life; and he that hath not the
Son hath not life." If one is cut off
from Christ, he has NO eternal life.
A BORN human baby has human
life on its own - independent of its
mother. That defines the difference
between the state of begettal and a
born state! The only difference is, in
the Christian life we are fed and
protected by and through the spiri-
tual Mother - the Church - while
our actual eternal life comes into us
through and from GOD. But when
BORN again, of GOD, we shall have
ETERNAL LIFE INHERENT - of our
own! We are NOT now in that state!
HOW Jesus Was the ONL Y
Begotten Son
King David of Israel had God's
Holy Spirit. Praying for forgiveness,
following his adultery with Bath -
sheba and murder of Uriah, he im-
plored: "Create in me a clean heart,
a God; and renew a right spirit
within me. Cast me not away from
thy presence; and take not thy Holy
Spirit from me" (Psalm 51: 10-11).
The prophets had received God's
Holy Spirit. Peter wrote: " . . . Holy
men of God spake as they were
moved by the Holy Spirit" (II Pet.
I: 21). They could not be called
" holy men" unless God's Spirit was
with in them.
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are to
be seen in the Kingdom of God.
Jesus said so. Therefore God's Spirit
was "dwelling in them" - they were
begotten of God - but THEY WERE
NOT BORN of GOD - for Jesus is
the firstborn of many brethren.
But if they were begotten of God
by the Holy Spirit - and hundreds
of years before Christ was born,
how could Jesus be called "the ONLY
begotten Son of God"?
ANSWER: The scriptures calling
Jesus the ONLY begotten Son of God
all apply to His begettal as the
human Son, His first birth - born of
the human mother, Mary. Jesus was
the ONLY human ever begotten by
God prior to HUMAN birth. In Reve-
lation I :5, the A.V. speaks of Christ
as the first begotten - but other
translations render it, properly, first-
BORN - referring to His resurrec-
tion, not His human birth from His
mother Mary.
Jesus was NOT the first begotten in
the sense that Abraham, David and
Old Testament prophets were be-
gotten.
Before Jesus was conceived by
Mary, He was not the SON of God.
God is the divine FAMILY. He was
one of that Family. In John 1: 1, He
is called the "Logos" - the Word.
He, like the Father, had existed
eternally. But He is nowhere in
God's Word referred to as a SON of
God prior to conception by Mary.
His human birth was His first birth.
He gave up the GLORY He had with
the Father in order to be born into
the world to save the world.
Abraham and many others -
prophets and writers of the Bible -
were begotten. of God - they were
in the same identical state as human
Christians who have God's Spirit
within them today. But they have
not, even yet, INHERITED - entered
into - the Kingdom of God. They
have not yet been BORN of God.
Jesus had to be the FIRST to be
BORN of God - the FIRSTBORN of
many brethren. That was His second
birth, as the resur rect ion will be
ours! "And these all, having ob-
tained a good report through faith,
received not the promise [were not
born into the KINGDOM]: God hav-
ing provided some better thing for
us, that they without us should not
be made perfect" (Heb. 11 :39-40).
This, again, PROVES that the con-
version in this life - receiving the
Holy Spirit - is only a begettal -
NOT a birth! For Old Testament
. fathers and prophets received God's
Spirit - but they were not "born
again" because Jesus was the first so
born!
How does this PROCESS of being
born again take place?
What Is the WAY?
Peter gave the WAY, and the condi-
tions. Repent, he said, and be bap-
tized, as an act of FAITH in Christ,
His shed blood in payment of the
penalty of our sins , and His resur-
rection making possible our eternal
life and being born again. Then, he
said, we shall receive the Holy
Spirit. Those in whom the Holy
Spirit dwells ARE CHRIST'S (Rom.
8:9) ; all others are not. But IF God's
Spirit dwells in them, God will, by a
resurrection AS He raised Christ
from the dead, bring forth all such
in immortal spirit life - composed
of spirit as Christ is.
All these scr iptures MAKE
CLEARLY PLAIN that we are to be
BORN AGAIN by, and ONLY by, a
resurrection to spi rit composition.
Weare now heirs of God and
joint-heirs with Christ - NOT YET
INHERITORS, or possessors of the
Kingdom.
The Human Birth
What is a birth - what is meant by
being born?
The PLAIN TRUTH Februa ry 1977
All who now are
begotten sons of God
shall then be born -
elevated from mortal to
immortal, from decaying
flesh to spirit -
from human to divine!
The actual final birth is called
parturition - a baby being delivered
out of its mother's womb.
But this birth requires a father, as
well as a mother! If it were not for
the PART the father contributes in
the process, there wou ld be no fetus
to be born. But THERE IS A TIME
ELEMENT. The father's part in what
shall, later, be the birth is to beget -
to gender - to sire. From his body
emanates the sperm cell that unites
with and starts life in an ovum
within the mother. This occurs nine
months prior to parturition - or
birth .
We never say, in the English lan-
guage, that immediately when an
embryo is conceived in the mother
- sired or begotten by the father -
that the embryo has already been
BORN! Birth has not occurred! To
say it would sound idiotic, ridicu-
lous!
From conception must follow the
PROCESS called gestation for nine
months . The embryo takes on
human form and is called a fetus. It
must develop and grow physically
to be born.
So with being born agam, i n a
spiritual birth.
What comes from the divine
Father is the Holy Spirit. Just as the
unborn chi ld in the mother's womb
is, even in the fetal state, the child
(yet unborn) of its parents, so those
in whom God's Spirit dwells are,
already, children of God. But they
are still OF this first birth - still
human - still composed of physical
flesh . They are still in their spiritual
Mother - the Church - which is
still in this corruptible present
world, though not of it. When born
of the Spirit, said Jesus, they shall
BE spirit.
But IF God's Holy Spirit dwells
in them, God then will resurrect
them (if they are dead), or change
them (if still living) from physical to
spiri t composition at Christ's com-
ing . They will then be brought forth
- delivered from their Mother, the
Church of God, into the Kingdom
of God.
Of the first birth, we are, and re-
main, FLESH! HUMAN beings!
Of the second birth, which is spiri -
tual, we shall BE spirit, no longer
flesh - bu t SPIRIT beings! - Divine
Beings!
Glorious World Tomorrow
What WONDERFUL, almost INCOM-
PREl-IENSIBLE, GLORIOUS GOOD
NEWS!
And the BEST NEWS is, that the
COMING OF CHRIST is now drawing
VERY NEAR! Just a very few more
years! And then - the PEACEFUL,
HAPPY, GLORIOUS WORLD TOMOR-
ROW!
All who NOW are begotten sons of
God shall then be BORN - elevated
from mo rtal to IMMORTAL, from
decaying FLESH to SPIRIT - from
HUMAN to DIVINE!
And that true born-again experi-
ence will be incomparably more
GLORIOUS than the false , vague,
meaningless, so-called "born-again
experience" that deceived THOU-
SANDS think they have had now.
Can your mind grasp what an in-
credible, transcendent GLORY is the
true potential of those who do BE-
LIEVE, REPENT and OBEY?
But , the scriptures that break be-
fore our eyes this GLORIOUS GOOD
NEWS, also warn us to TAKE HEED,
and to make our calling and election
sure! 0
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AKRON - WSLR, 1350 ke., 5:00 a.m. Mon.-Fri.
& Sun., 8:30 p.m. Sun., 10:30 p.m. Mon. -Fri.
& Sun.
ALLENTOWN - WSAN, 1470 ke., 6:30 a.m.
Mon .-Fri .
ASHEVILLE - WWNC, 570 ke., 11:00 p.m.
Mon .-Fri. & Sun.
ATHENS - WDOL, 1470 ke. , 12:30 p.m. Mon .-
Fri.
BALTIMORE - WTOW, 1570 ke., 3:00 p.m.
Mon.-Fri.
BINGHAMTON - WKOP 1360 ke., 8:00 a.m.
Sun.
BLUEFIELD - WKOY, 1240 kc., 12:00 noon
Mon.-Sat. , 1:30 p.m. Sun.
BROCKTON - WBET AM & FM 1460 ke., 97.7
me., 6:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
CAYCE - WCAY, 620 kc., 12:00 noon Mon.- Fri.
" CHARLESTON - WCHS, 580 ke., 10:00 p.m.
Mon.-Fri.
CHATTANOOGA - WDEF AM & FM, 1370 ke.,
92.3 me., 7:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri. , 6:30 p.m. Sun.
CHESAPEAKE - WCPK, 1600 ke., '12:30 p.m.
Mon.-Fri.
CINCINNATI - WLW, 700 ke., 11:00 p.m. Sun.
CINCINNATI - WZIP, 1050 kc., 12:30 p.m.
Mon .-Fri.
" CLEVELAND - WERE, 1300 ke., 8:00 p.m.
Mon .-Fri . & Sun.
COLUMBUS - WWWY-FM, 104.9 rnc., 6:00
p.m. Mon .-Fri.
" DAYTON - WONE, 980 kc., 8:30 p.m. Mon.-
.Fri., 9:00 p.m. Sun.
DECATUR - WQAK, 1310 ke., 10:05 a.m. Sun.
DETROIT - WLDM-FM, 95.5 me. , 7:15 a.m.
Mon .-Fri ., 9:00 a.m. Sun.
FAIRFIELD - WCNW 1560 ke., 12:30 p.m.
Mon .-Fr i.
FINDLAY, OH. - WFIN, 1330 kc., 10:30 a.m.
Sun .
FLINT - WKMF, 1470 ke., 10:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
FORT WAYNE - WGL, 1250 ke., 6:30 p.m.
Mon .-Fri.
FRANKLIN - WFTN 1240 ke., 12:00 noon
Mon.-Fri. .
GAINESVILLE - WAKA, 1390 ke., 7:00 a.m.
Mon .-Fri.
GAYLORD - WATC, 900 kc., 12:30 p.m. Mon.-
Fri.
GLOVERSVILLE - WENT 1340 ke., 7:00 p.m.
Mon .-Fri.
GREENVILLE - WNCT AM & FM 1070 ke. &
107.7 me., 6:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
HAMMONTON - WRDI, 1580 ke., 6:30 p.m.
Mon .-Fri .
HAMMONTON, N.J. - WRDR-FM, 104.9 me.,
6:30 p.m. Mon.- Fri .
HARRISONBURG - WHP, 580 kc., 7:30 p.m.
Mon.-Fri. & Sun.
" HORSEHEAD, N.Y. - WENY, 1230 ke., 9:30
a.m. Sun.
INDIANAPOLIS - WBRI, 1500 ke., 2:00 p.m.
Mon.-Fri.
JACKSONVILLE - WBIX, 1010 ke., 10:30 a.m.
Mon.-Fri.
JACKSONVILLE, FL. - WCMG, 1090 ke., 12
noo n daily.
JOHNSTOWN - WJAC, 850 ke., 7:00 p.m.
Mon.-Fri. '
KINGSPORT - WKPT, 1400 ke., 12:30 p.m.
Mon.-Fri.
KISSIMMEE - WFIV, 1080 ke., 12:30 p.m.
Mon .-Fri.
KNOXVILLE - WSKT, 1580 ke., 8:00 a.m.
Mon .-Fri.
LANCASTER - WXRL, 1300 ke., 6:30 a.m.
Mon .-Fri.
LAURINBURG - WSTS-FM, 96.5 me., 12:30
p.m. Mon.-Fri.
LENOIR - WJRI , 1340 ke., 6:30 p.rn. Mon.-Fri.
LONDON - WFTG, 1400 kc., 12:30 p.m. Mon .-
Fri.
LOUISVILLE - WFIA AM & FM, 900 ke., 103.9
rnc., 11:30 a.rn. Mon .-Fri. AM; 7:00 a.m. Mon .-
Fri. FM
LOUISVILLE - WHAS, 840 kc., 11:30 p.m.
Mon .-Fri ., 8:00 p.m. Sun.
MIAMI - WIOD, 610 ke., 11:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri. &
Sun.
" MIDDLETOWN - WCNX, 1150 ke., 12:30 p.m.
Mon .-Fri.
" MIDLAND - WMPX, 1490 ke., 10:15 a.m. Sun.
" MONTGOMERY - WMGY, 800 ke., 10:00 a.m.
Sun.
MONTPELIER - WSKI, 1240 ke., 6:00 p.m.
Mon.-Fri.
NEW HAVEN - WEll , 960 ke., 10:30 p.m.
Mon.-Fri., 9:30 p.rn. Sun.
NEW ROCHELLE - WVOX, 1460 kc., 12:30
p.m. Mon.-Fr i., 10:00 a.m. Sun.
NEW YORK - WOR, 710 ke., 6:30 a.m. & 11:30
p.m. Sun., 10:30 p.m. Mon,-Fr i.
NIAGARA FALLS - WHLD, 1270 ke., 6:30 a.rn.
Mon.-Fri.
PHILADELPHIA - WRCP, 1540 ke., 12 noon,
Mon.-Fri., 10:30 a.m. Sun.
" PIKEVILLE - WPKE, 1240 ke., 6:30 p.m.
Mon.-Fri.
PITTSBURGH - WPIT, 730 ke., 12 noon , Mon.-
Fri ., 11:00 a.m. Sun.
PITTSBURGH - KQV, 1410 ke., 10:00 p.m.
Mon.-Fri.
PORTSMOUTH - WIOI , 1010 kc., 12:35 p.m.
Mon.-Fr i.
PROVIDENCE - WJAR, 920 ke., 11:30 p.rn.
Mon .-Fri.
RALEIGH - WPTF, 680 kc., 1:15 p.m. Mon .-
Fri., 9:30 a.m. Sun.
" RICHMOND - WRVA, 1140 ke., 10:00 p.m.
Mon.-Fri. & Sun.
ROANOKE - WFIR, 960 kc., 7:00 p.m. Mon ,-
Fri. & Sun.
ROCHESTER - WHAM, 1180 ke., 11:30 p.m.
Mon.-Fri., 10:00 a.m. Sun.
' ROCHESTER - WWNH, 930 kc., 6:30 p.m.
Mo'n.-Fri.
SAVANNAH - WSAV, 630 ke., 7:00 p.m. Mon. -
Fri.
SCRANTON - WGBI , 910 ke., 12:30 p.m. Mon .-
Fri. & Sun.
SHEFFIELD - WSHF, 1290 ke., 9:30 a.m. Sun.
SPRINGFIELD - WACE, 730 ke., 12 noon
Mon.-Fri. & Sun.
" STATESBORO - WWNS, 1240 ke., 7:00 p.m.
Mon .-Fri.
" SYRACUSE - WSOQ, 1220 ke., 6:30 a.m.
Mon.-Fri.
TAMPA - WINQ, 1010 ke., 5:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
" TOLEDO - WSPD, 1370 ke., 7:00 p.m. Mon.-
Fri. & Sun.
UNIONTOWN - WMBS, 590 ke., 9:30 a.m. Sun.
VALDOSTA - WGAF, 910 ke., 10:30 a.m. Sun.
WALTERBORO - WALD, 1060 kc., 12:00 noon
Mon.-Fri.
WARREN, OH. - WHHH, 1440 ke., 10:30 a.m.
Sun.
WASHINGTON D.C. - WKYS-FM, 93.9 me.,
9:00 a.m. Sun.
WASHINGTON D.C. - WRC, 980 ke., 9:00 a.m.
Sun.
WATERBURY - WDEV, 550 ke., 6:30 p.m.
Mon .:Fri.
WINTER GARDEN - WHLY-FM, 106.7 me.,
7:00 a.m. Mon .-Fri.
WHEELING - WWVA, 1170 ke., 5:00 a.m.
Mon.-Fr i., 8:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri. & Sun., 10:30
a.m. & 11:30 p.m. Sun.
Central Time
APPLETON - WAPL AM & FM, 1570 ke., 105.7
me., 6:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
" ATOKA - KEOR-AM, 1110 ke., 4:25 p.m.
Mon.-Fri. .
ATOKA - KTENFM, 93.3 me., 6:30 a.m. Mon .-
Fri.
AUSTIN - KLBJ , 590 ke., 6:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri.,
9:30 a.m. Sun.
BIRMINGHAM - WYDE, 850 ke., 7:00 p.m.
Mon.-Fri., 6:30 a.m. & 6:30 p.m. Sun.
BOWLING GREEN - WLBJ, 1410 ke., 5:30 p.m.
Mon.- Fri.
CHICAGO - WMAQ, 670 ke., 5:05 a.m. Mon. -
Fri.
COFFEYVILLE - KGGF, 960 kc., 5:00 a.m.
Mon .-Fri. , 6:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
" DALLAS - KLIF, 1190 ke., 7:30 a.m. Sun.
" DALLAS - KRLD, 1080 ke., 11:30 p.m. Mon.-
Fri. & Sun.
DE FUNIAK SPRINGS, FL. - WGTX, 1280 ke.,
WQUH-FM, 103.1, 12:15 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
DES MOINES - KWKY, 1150 ke., 12:30 p.m. &
9:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri., & Sun.
DULUTH - WDSM, 710 ke., 6:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
EAST GRAND FORKS, N.D. - KRAD AM & FM,
1590 ke., 103.9 me., 12:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
EDEN PRAIRIE, MN. - KRSI , 8:00 p.m. Mon.-
Sun.
EVANSVILLE - WJPS, 1330 ke., 10:00 p.m.
Mon.-Fri.
EVANSVILLE - WVHI FM, 105.3 me., 4:30 p.m.
Mon.-Fri.
FAYETTEVILLE - KFAY, 1250 ke., 12:30 p.m.
Mon.-Fri.
GADSDEN - WAAX 570 ke., 12:30 p.m. Mon.-
Fri., 12 noon, Sun.
GLADEWATER - KEES, 1430 ke., 12 noon
Mon .-Fri. & Sun.
GRAND FORKS - KRAD AM & FM, 1590 ke.,
103. 9 me., 12:30 p.m. Mon.- Fri.
GREEN BAY - WGEE, 1360 ke., 6:30 p.m.
Mon.-Fri.
HOUSTON, MS. - WCPC, 940 ke., 4:30 p.m.
Sun.
HOUSTON, TX. - KPRC, 950 ke., 10:30 p.m.
Mon .-Fri. & Sun.
IOWA CITY - KXIC, 800 ke., 6:05 a.m. Mon.-
Fri.
JACKSON - WTJS, 1390 ke., 7:00 p.m. Sun.
" JONESBORO - KNEA, 970 ke., 11:30 a.m.
Mon.-Fri.
KANSAS CITY - KMBZ, 980 kc., 10:30 p.m.
Mon .-Fri. & Sun.
LAKE CHARLES - KLCL, 1470 ke., 10:00 p.m.
Mon.-Fri.
LENOIR CITY - WLI L, 730 ke., 8:00 a.m. Mon.-
Fri.
" LI BERAL, KS. - KSCB, 1270 ke., 10:30 a.m.
Sun.
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LITTLE ROCK - KAAY, 1090 ke. , 7:30 p.m.
daily, 9:30 a.m. Sun ., 5:15 a.m. Mon.-Fri.
MAGEE, MS. - WSJC, 810 ke., 10:00 a.m. Sun.
MEMPHIS - WREC, 600 ke.. 11:00 p.m. Mon.-
Fri.
MIDLAND - KWEL, 1600 ke., 11:30 a.m. Sun.
MILWAUKEE - WISN, 1130 ke., 11:30 p.m.
Mon.-Fri.
MOBILE - WKRG, 710 ke., & 99.9 me. 11:30
a.m. Mon.-Fri., & 7:30 a.m. Sun. 8:00 p.m.
Mon .-Fri. & Sun. (FM) .
MONROE - KREB-FM, 106.4 me., 5:30 p.m.
Mon.-Fri.
MT. VERNON - WMIX , 940 kc ., 7:00 p.m.
Mon .-Fri. & Sun .
NASHVILLE - WSIX, 980 ke., 8:30 p.m. Mon .-
Fri., 8:00 p.m. Sun.
NEW ORLEANS - WWL, 870 ke., 8:30 p.m.
Mon .-Fri.
OKLAHOMA CITY - KTOK , 1000 ke., 10:30
p.m. Mon.-Fri. & Sun.
PADUCAH - WDXR, 1560 ke., 12:30 p.m.
Mon.-Fri.
PAMPA - KGRO, 1230 ke., 6:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
PANAMA CITY - WPCF, 1430 ke., 6:30 p.m.
Mon .-Fri.
PEORIA - WMBD, 1470 ke., 10:30 p.m. Mon .-
Fri. & Sun .
ROCHESTER - KOLM, 1520 ke., 12:30 p. m.
Mon.-Fri.
ROLLA - KCLU AM & FM, 1590 kc ., 94.3 me. ,
12:25 p.m. Mon .-Fri.
RUSSELLVILLE - KARV, 1490 kc ., 10:00 p.m.
Mon.-Fri. .
ST. JOSEPH - KUSN, 1270 ke., 12:30 p.m.
Mon.-Fri.
ST. PAUL - KRSI , 950 ke., 8:00 p.m. Mon .-Fr i.
& Sun .
SAN ANTONIO - WOAI , 1200 ke., 5:00 a.m.
Mon.-Sat. , 7:30 p.rn. Sun.
" SHERMAN - KTXO, 1500 ke., 4:45 p.m. Mon.-
Fri.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - KIOV-FM, 104. 7me
12:30 p.m. Mo n.-Fri.
SIOUX CITY, 10. - KSCJ , 1360 ke., 6:15 p.m.
Mon .-Fri. & Sun.
TEXARKANA - KOSY , 790 ke., 5:30 p.m. Mon.-
Fri.
VICTORIA - KTXN-FM, 98.7 me.. 9:30 a.m.
Sun.
WATERLOO - KXEL, 1540 kc., 8:30 p.m. Mon .-
Fri., 8:00 p.m. Sun., 105.7 me. FM, 8:30 a.m.
Sun.
WATERTOWN - KWAT-FM, 96.1 rnc., 6:30
p.m. Mon .-Fri.
Mountain Time
ALBUQUERQUE - KOB, 770 ke., 11:00 p.m.
Mon.-Fr i. & Sun.
ARVADA - KQXI , 1550 kc., 1:30 p.rn. Mon .-Fri.
BLACKFOOT - KBLI, 690 ke., 6:30 p.m. Mon.-
Fri.
BOISE - KAIN, 1340 ke., 6:55 a.m. Mon.-Fri.
CASPER - KTWO, 1030 ke., 6:05 p.m. Mon .-
Fri. & Sun.
DENVER - KOA, 850 ke., H)':30 p.m. Mon.-Fri.,
7:00 p.m. Sun.
DURANGO - KIUP , 930 ke., 6:00 a.m. Mon.-Fri.
FARMINGTON - KRZE, 1280 kc ., 6:00 a.m.
Mon.-Fri.
KALISPELL - KOFI , 1180 ke., 6:30 p.m. Mon .-
Fri. & Sun.
" LAS CRUCES - KGRT, 570 ke., 10:00 a.m.
Sun .
' MISSOULA - KGVO, 1290 ke., 7:00 p.m. Mon .-
Fri.
ONTARIO, OR. - KSRV, 1380 ke., 7:00 p.m.
Mon.-Fri.
PRESCOTT - KYCA, 1490 ke., 7:00 p.m. Mon.-
Fri.
SALT LAKE CITY - KSL , 1160 kc., 5:06 a.m. &
11:06 p.m. Mon .-Fri., 5:30 a.m. & 11:25 p.m.
Sun.
TUCSON - KTUC , 1400 ke., 12:45 p.m. Mon.-
Fri. & Sun ., 6:00 a.m. Mon .-Fr i., 6:30 a.m.
Sun.
WHEATLAND - KYCN, 1340 ke., 5:30 p.m.
Mon.-Fri.
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Pacific Time
AUBURN, WA. - KGRG, 89.9 rnc., 12:00 noon
Sun.
CHICO, CA. - KHSL, 1290 ke., 7:30 p.m. Mon.-
Fri.
COVINA - KGRB, 900 kc ., KOB-FM, 98.3 me.,
12 noon Mon.-Fri., 9:00 a.m. Sun.
EUGENE - KATR, 1320 ke., 7:30 a.m. Mon.-Fri.
FRESNO - KBIF, 900 kc ., 1:00 p.m. Mon .-Fri.
KEALUKEKUA, HI. - KKON, 790 ke., 6:00 p.m.
Mon.-Fr i.
LAS VEGAS - KTRI -FM, 92.3 me., 6:30 a.m.
Mon.-Fri. & Sun .
LOS ANGELES - KLAC, 570 kc ., 10:30 p.m.
Mon.-Fri. , 8:30 a.m. Sun .
MEDFORD - KAGNFM, 98.5 me., 8:00 a.m.
Mo n.-Fri. .
MEDFORD - KSHA, 860 ke., 7:00 a.m. Mon .-
Fri.
OLYMPIA - KITN, 920 ke., 6:00 a.m. Mon .-Fri.
" PASCO - KOTY, 1340 kc ., 1:00 p.m. Mon.-
Fri., 12:00 p.m. Sun.
PORTLAND - KLlQ, 1290 ke., 7:30 a.m. Mon.-
Fri.
PORTLAND - KWJJ, 1080 ke., 9:00 p.m. Mo n.-
Fri., 9:30 p.m. Sun .
SACRAMENTO - KRAK, 1140 kc., 8:30 p.m.
Mon. -Fri.
SALINAS - KTOM, 1380 ke., 10:30 p.m. Mon. -
Fri.
SAN DIEGO - KSDO , 1130 ke., 10:30 p.m.
Mon.Fri. & Sun.
SAN FRANCISCO - KFMR-FM, 104.9 mc ., 8:00
a.m. Mon.-Fr i.
SAN FRANCISCO - KNBR, 680 ke., 11:30 p.m.
Mon.-Fri.
SAN FRANCISCO - KKIS, 990 kc., 10:00 p.m.
Mon.-Sat.
SEATTLE - KIRO, 710 ke., 5:00 a.m. Mon .-Fri. ,
11:30 p.rn. Mon .-Fri.
SEATTLE - KXA , 770 ke. , 7:00 a.m. Mon .-Fri.
SEWARD - KRXA, 950 ke., 12:30 p.rn. Mon .-
Fri.
SPOKANE - KICNFM, 99.0 me., 12:00 noon
Mon.-Fri. _.
VISTA, CA. - KMLO, 100 ke., 9:00 a.m. Sun.
WAIPAHA, HI. - KAHU, 940 ke., 7:00 p.m.
Mon .-Fr i.
YAKIMA - KUTI-FM, 104.5 rnc., 9:30 p.m.
Mon .-Fri. & Sun.
CANADIAN STATIONS
Newfoundland Time
BAIEVERTE, - .CKIM, 1240 kc ., 6:00 p.m.
daily .
CLARENVILLE - CKVO, 710 ke., 6:00 p.m.
dai ly.
GANDER - CKGA, 730 kc., 6:00 p.m. daily.
GRAND FALLS - CKCM, 620 ke., 6:00 p.m.
daily.
MARYSTOWN - CHCM , 560 ke., 6:00 p.m.
daily.
ST. JOHN'S - VOCM , 590 ke., 6:00 p.m. dail y.
Atlantic Time
CAMPBELLTON - CKNB, 950 kc., 9:30 p.m.
Mon.-Fri., 8:30 p.m. Sat.
FREDERICTON - CFNB, 550 ke., 10:05 p.m.
daily.
MONCTON - CKCW, 1220 ke., 9:30 p.m. Mon .-
Sat.
NEWCASTLE - CFAN, 790 kc., 9:30 p.m.
Mon .-Sat.
" SAINT JOHN - CFBC, 930 ke., 10:30 p.m.
Mon .-Fri.
SYDNEY - CJCB, 1270 ke., 6:00 p.m. daily.
YARMOUTH - CJLS, 1340 kc., 6:30 p.rn. Mon .-
Sat.
Eastern Time
BLIND RIVER - CJNR, 730 ke., 6:30 p.m. daily.
BRANTFORD - CKPC, 1380 ke., 6:30 p.m.
daily .
CORNWALL - CJSS, 1220 kc., 10:30 p.m.
daily.
DAUPHIN, MAN. - CKDM , 730 ke., 6:30 p.m.
dail y.
DRYDEN, ONT. - CKDR, 900 ke., 7:30 p.m.
Mon.-Fr i., 10:30 p.m. Sun .
ELLIOT LAKE - CKNR, 1340 ke., 6:30 p.m.
daily.
FT. FRANCIS - CFOB, 800 ke., 7:30 p.m. Mon.-
Fr i. 10:30 p.m. Sun .
HULL - CKCH, (French) 7:00 a.m. Sun .
KINGSTON - CKWS, 960 ke., 10:30 p.m. Mon .-
Fri.
KIRKLAND LAKE - CJKL, 560 ke., 10:30 p.m.
Mon.-Sat.
LEAMINGTON - CHYR, 710 kc ., 6:30 p.m.
Mon .-Fri.
LINDSAY - CKLY, 910 kc. , 10:00 p.m. Mon .-
Fri.
" MONTREAL - CFMB , 1410 ke., 6:30 a.m.
Mon.-Fri.
MONTREAL (French) - CFMB, 1410 kc ., 5:00
p.m. Sat. & Sun .
NEW L1SKEARD - CJTT, 1230 kc ., 9:30 p.m.
Mon.-Sat.
NORTH BAY - CFCH, 600 kc ., 10:30 p.m.
Mon.-Fr i. & Sun .
PEMBROKE - CHOV, 1350 ke., 9:30 p.m.
Mon .-Fri.
QUEBEC - CKCV (French) 1280 ke., 7:00 a.m.
Sun.
RIMOUSKI - CJBR (French) 900 ke., 7:00 a.m.
Sun .
STE. AGATHE - CJSA (French) 1230 ke., 6:30
p.m. Mon , Wed., Fri.
SAULT STE. MARIE - CKCY, 920 ke., 6:30
p.m. daily.
SHERBROOKE - CHLT, (French) 630 kc ., 7:30
a.m. Sun.
SMITHS FALLS - CJET, 630 ke., 7:30 p.m.
Mon.-Fri.
THETFORD MINES - CKLD, (French) 7:00
a.m. Sun .
" THUNDER BAY - CJSDFM, 94.3 me., 6:30
p.m. daily.
THUNDER BAY - CKPR, 580 ke., 9:30 p.m.
Sun.
TIMMINS - CKGB, 680 kc ., 10:30 p.rn. Mon .-
Fri., 10:00 p.m. Sat.
TROIS RIVIERES - CHLH, (French) 550 kc .,
7:00 a.m. Sun.
Central Time
KENORA - CJRL, 1220 ke., 7:30 p.rn. Mon .-Fr i.
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE - CFRY, 920 ke., 6:30
p.m. daily.
PRINCE ALBERT - CKBI , 900 ke., 6:30 p.m.
Mon.-Fri.
REGINA - CKRM, 980 ke. , 8:30 p.m. Mon .-Fri.
& Sun.
SASKATOON - CFQC, 600 ke., 8:30 p.m. daily.
SWIFT CURRENT - CKSW, 1400 ke., 10:30
p.m. daily.
WINNIPEG - CKJS, 810 ke. , 9:00 p.m. daily.
YORKTON - CJGX, 940 ke., 6:30 p.m. dail y.
Mountain Time
CAMROSE - CFCW, 790 ke., 8:30 p.m. Mon.-
Sat.
CROWSNEST PASS - CJPR, 1490 kc ., 6:30
p.rn. Mon.-Fri. & Sun.
PLEASE NOTE
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AVISIT WITH IAN SMITH
MR. STANLEY RADER meets Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith in the
Prime Minister's office in Salisbury, November 29, 1976.
IN BRIEF
by Stanley R. Rader
The author accompanies Plain
Truth Editor-in-Chief Herbert
W Armstrong on his frequent
visits with heads of state and
other leading international
dignitaries.
SALISBURY, RHODESIA, No-
vember 29,1976: We have just left
the office of Prime Minister Ian
Smith. Much has happened in this
part of the world since our first visit
last May. Infact, nothing isthe same
in the Republic of South Africa, as
well as Rhodesia, since June 16,
when the first mass rioting began in
the black township of Soweto, a
suburb of Johannesburg.
Shortly after the onset of the
riots, Prime Minister John Vorster
of the Republic of South Africa
flew to Europe to meet with Secre-
tary of State Kissinger (a meeting
that had been planned for some
time) in order to discuss the prob-
lems of the southern part of the
troubled African continent. At that
time Mr. Kissinger had not as yet
visited South Africa or Rhodesia,
but had made a much-publicized
"swing" into the black African
states and had made many state-
ments proclaiming United States
support for " black-majority" rule
- statements which, of course,
militated against the governments
of Mr. Vorster and Mr. Smith.
Later in the summer, Mr. Kiss-
inger visited Africa again, and this
time his journey included a series
of meetings in Pretoria - the ad-
ministrative capital of South Africa
- first with Mr. Vorster, and finally
with Mr. Vorster and Mr. Smith. At
these meetings the position of
Rhodesia in relation to the rest of
southern Africa , and indeed to the
Western nations, was discussed in
great detail, and it was made clear
to Mr. Smith that the pressure
from the free world would con-
tinue to mount as long as the
present circumstances in Rho-
desia prevailed.
These same meetings led to an
acceptance by Prime Minister
Smith and the rest of his cabinet of
the proposals made by Mr. Kiss-
inger, working in close consulta-
tion with the British government.
This, in turn, led to the conference
presently in session in Geneva,
where representatives of the Rho-
desian government and the Black
Nationalist leaders are meeting
under the auspices of the British
government and Mr. Ivor Richard.
Unfortunately, as the Prime Minis-
ter told us today, it was apparent
to him that the Black Nationalist
leaders did not intend to abide by
the five-point program that consti-
tuted the Rhodesian government's
acceptance of the Kissinger pro-
posal. Although the Prime Minister
indicated that he was ready and
willing to return to Geneva, he
would not do so unless there was
some real possibility that the other
parties would be getting down to
discussing the real business of the
conference.
Prime Minister Smith had
agreed to an independent, major-
ity-ruled government within two
years, during which time there
would be an interim government
- two-tiered - a council of state,
evenly divided between black and
white, with a white chairman, and
a council of ministers led by a.
black prime minister . The minis-
tries of Defense and Law and Or-
der would remain under the
jurisdiction of the whites, a provi-
sion intended to preclude a sud-
den emigration of the white
population. Mr. Smith emphasized
that the preliminary agreement
that was responsible for the Ge-
neva conference did not give the
answers to all of the problems, but
it did present an opportunity to all
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The PLAIN TRUTH February 1977 39
Human Survival
And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved . . . Matthew 24:22
;g
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AERIAL PRAYER - South Dakota farmer Don Clelland needs rain after one of the most severe dro ughts in the state's
history, and he isn 't afraid to advertise to low-flying aircraft. Clelland plowed the message into a stubble field.
A News Bureau Staff Report
LIVING IN THE SHADOWOF
\NORLDWIDE FAMINE
the la nd of plen ty,

breadbasket of the world! For
nearly 200 years American
food stocks have comfortably fed
America's people and for the past
three decades filled much of the
food needs of the increasing number
of food-short nations.
To Western eyes, food shortages
occur only in lands where gaunt
oxen pull knotty wooden plows
through impoverished soils amid
squa lid hut s. Famine and hunger
are problems south of the border or
far across the ocean.
But could fami nes such as re-
40
cently afflicted Sub-Sa hara in Africa
and Bangladesh ever strike in the
prosperous developed nations of
North America and Western Eu-
rope?
Record Drought in Breadbasket
Nations
In recent months some of the worst
drough ts on record have hit key
areas of the world.
Last summer the worst dr y spell
and hea t wave in over a hundred
years hit England. northwestern
Fra nce, West Germany. northern
Ita ly and parts of Belgium. For Brit-
ain the drought was the worst in 250
years. Extra food and animal fodder
had to be imported to mak e up for
the unprecedented drought.
In the United States, northern
California. the Dakotas and Minne-
sota were especially hard hit by
drought. as were sect ions of Colo-
rado. Kansas and Nebraska.
Farmers in South Dak ota and
Minnesota have suffered the worst.
Dale D. Gullickson, director of mar -
keting and agricul tural development
for the South Dakota Depart ment
of Agric ulture, calls it "ihe most seri-
ous drought in South Dakota this
century. " He estimates drought-re-
lated agricultural losses for the state
for 1976 to be "around a billion dol-
lars."
A report prepared by the drought
task force in South Dakota says that
"statewide, it can be seen that esti-
mated crop production in 1976 is
55.5% below the average 1967-74
leve1." In some counties, crop de-
creases ar e estimated at 90% or
more. As for cattle, according to the
ta sk force report, farmers and
ranchers in 17 counties "are ex-
pected to experience a reduction in
cattle numbers of more than 50%."
The Minnesota Farmers Union
estimates drought losses in that state
at $1.15 billion for 53 of 87 counties.
According to one U.S. agriculture
official : "The drought has been
more intensely localized in South
Dakota, parts of Minnesota and
Iowa. But there has been a lack of
rainfalI in much of th e region
stretching from southern Wisconsin
and western Ohio all the way to
northern Missouri , eastern Kan sas,
Nebraska, Iowa and southern Min-
nesota."
The ten-state region he outlined is
often calIed the Corn Belt, but it
accounts also for much of the coun-
try's production of soybeans, oat s,
hay, alfalfa and wheat. as well as
beef and dairy cattle.
On America's west coast, Ca lifor-
nia farmers, who provide much of
the nation's food, lost more than $1
bilIion worth of crops during 1976
because of the winter drought, two
harvest-time strikes, a dam aging
freeze and unseasonable rains. The
California Farm Bureau warned on
November 28 that another dry win-
ter would produce a new round of
severe agri cultural losses. It called
1976 "one of the most damaging
and frustr ating production years in
history."
"Nearly ever y farmer suffered to
some extent, but for some time the
losses were cat astrophic," said Fred
Heringer, bureau president. " Pro-
duction from entire orchards was
lost ; cattlemen without feed or pas-
ture were forced to liqu idate."
Far from the United Stat es, in
Australia, one of the world's key
food-exporting nations, drought
co nditi ons reduced a pr evi ou sly
forecast 1976 wheat crop of 12 mil-
lion tons to onl y around 8 mill ion.
In southern Australia man y key
cropland and grazing areas had no
more than 10% of their normal rain-
falI during the ir 1976 growin g sea-
so n. Million s of sheep and
thousands of head of cattle had to
be kilIed.
Ominous Weather Trends
The paradox of overall near-record
food crops in the U.S. at the same
time of spotty but severe drought is
no source of peace of mind to agri-
cult ural experts, who realize that the
bountiful yields of recent years have
largely been achieved through the
release into production of lands
once held in reserve. They also
know that much of the credit for
tremendous yield increa ses over the
last 15 years should be attributed to
optimum weather conditions which
prevailed until 1974. According to
John McQuigg, a leading govern-
ment climatologist at the University
of Missouri : "The probability of
getting another fifteen consecutive
years that good __ is about one in
10,000."
For the past several years , leading
climatologists have been warning
that the United States may be
headed for some tough weather
yea rs if certain adverse weath er cy-
cles of the past are repeated. There
is some pretty hard evidence that
there have been at least eight suc-
cessive dry peri ods east of the Rock-
ies spaced 20 to 22 years apart. No
one knows for sure why they occur,
but there are plenty of theories
(many focus on sunspot act ivity).
At the same time there appear s to
be a major global change in weather
patterns. Many meteorologists feel a
gradual cooling trend is going on, at
least in the Northern Hemisphere.
Other scientists are not sure.
Scientist s generally do agree,
however, with the observation of J.
Murray Mitchell Jr. of the U.S. Na-
tional Atmospheric and Oceanic
Administration: "From the agricul-
tural productivity point of view the
climate's not going to get better. It
can onl y get worse. .. . If there' s
anything we can be reasonably con-
fident about in terms of projections
of future climate , it is that the cli-
mat e of our crop-growing areas will
become more variable than it has
been in the recent past" (emphasis
ours throughout article).
Drought Already Overdue
According to leading weather offi-
cials, a major drought is already
overdue in the American Great
Plains - now the world's most im-
portant breadbasket. A few years
ago, Dr. Walter Orr Roberts, direc-
tor of the National Center for At-
mospheric Research , sa id: "I
personally am watching very in-
tently for a drought in the mid-
1970's in the high plains ."
Dr. Irving Krick, noted long-range
weather forecaster, told Plain Truth
researchers : "Now we think that the
latter half of the seventies will bring
more general drought extending
from the Southwest up, encroaching
farther north and east into the grain
belts of Kan sas, the corn areas of
Iowa , Illinois, and so forth."
Dr. Stephen H. Schneider, re-
search scientist at the Boulder, Col-
orado, weather research center, also
told our interviewers in 1974: "I
would say that the odds of having
drought conditions in the seventies
are probably higher than they were
in the sixties without any theory at
all - just because we've had a very
good stretch in the last fifteen yea rs
in the United States."
Henry Lansford of the Nati onal
Center for Atmospheric Research
near Boulder, Colorado, adds that
"it will not take an apocal yptic
event such as the onset of a new ice
age to bring human suffering from
famine . Even if no long-term
changes in climate are forthcoming,
the immediate potential appears to
be deadly serious . The climate,
trends that some scientists are pre-
dict ing could bring us to a point of
cat astrophic consequences between
the increasing population and in-
adequate food supplies much sooner
than many people expect."
Finally, Reid Bryson, noted Uni-
ver sity of Wisconsin climatologist,
says: "The evidence is now abun-
dantly clear that the climate of the
earth is changing in a direction that
is not _promising in terms of our
ability to feed the world."
World's Gravest Problem
Weather uncertainties in the food-
exporting nations could not come at
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a more serious juncture in human
history. At a recent world food con-
ference it was pointed out that in 25
years - or about one generation -
world food production must more
than double to give the rapidly in-
creasing world population just a
little improvement in food quantity,
and hopefully, quality.
The same conference projected
that food deficits of the developing
countries by 1985 will amount to a
staggering 80 to over 100 million
tons annually. Such deficits , in the
words of Dr. John A. Hannah, exec-
utive director of the U.N. World
Food Council, are "too high to be
considered manageable, physically
or financially. And these shocking
shortfalls will greatly increase with
each weather disaster." Thus, adds
Dr. Hannah: "The challenge of pro-
viding food for hungry people . . . is
the greatest challenge of the last
quarter of the twentieth century."
Dr. Raymond Ewell , a leading
fertilizer expert from the State Uni-
versity of New York, goes one step
further, labeling the world food
crisis "the biggest, most fundamen-
tal, and most nearly insoluble prob-
lem that has ever faced the human
race ."
Why is thi s so? Simply because the
world today consists almost entirely
of food-deficit countries. "Important
exporters at the global level ," writes
food expert Lester R. Brown, "can
be numbered on the fingers of one
hand. While scores of new food im-
porters have emerged over the past
two decades, not a single new ex-
porter has emerged!"
If the trends of the past several
years continue, writes Brown in the
December 1976 issue of The Futurist ,
"the collective import needs of the
100-plus importing countries even-
tually will greatly exceed the export-
able supplies from North America,
particularly when the harvest is poor.
Inevitably, harsh decisions will have
to be made by the U.S. and Canadian
governments on who gets food and
who does not. . .."
Brown's prognosis sounds very
similar to the conclusions reached
by William and Paul Paddock in
their book Famine 1975, Who Will
Survive? (published in 1967 by
Little, Brown and Company, Boston
and Toronto). The Paddock broth-
42
ers concluded that not all countries
could possibly be helped in a future
world food crisis; that those who
stood a chance to survive should be
helped ("the walking wounded")
but that other poor, overpopulated,
chronically food -short lands would
simply have to be left to fend for
themselves.
The world food-trade pattern has
been "altered profoundly in recent
decades" adds Brown. Within only
one generation, virtually the entire
world has come to depend on North
American food exports. Asia, Af-
rica, Latin America, Western Eu-
rope, and Eastern Europe, including
the Soviet Union, are now all net
grain importers. Much of the food
imported into these regions is used
to feed burgeoning urban popu-
lations. And by the year 2000 the
world will be half urban - up from
29% in 1950.
" Not only are nearly all countries
today food importers," explains
Brown, "but a growing number now
import over half of their grain sup-
plies. Among these are Japan, Bel-
gium, Senegal, Libya, Saudi Arabia,
Venezuela, Lebanon, Switzerland
and Algeria. Others rapidly ap-
proaching a similar degree of depen-
dence on imported foodstuffs include
Portugal, Costa Rica, Sri Lanka (Cey-
lon) , South Korea and Egypt. ..."
Brown's conclusion : "Over-
whelming dependence by the
world's cities [and nations] on im-
ported food supplies from a single
geographic region in a world of food
scarcity brings with it a vulnerabil-
ity to external political forces and
climatic trends that is risky indeed."
Production Limits Reached in U.S.
The dependency factor is deeply
disturbing in light of agricultural
conditions under way in North
America. Even aside from bad
weather, other factors are not prom-
ising. For one, yields of every major
crop, whether it be wheat, corn or
rice, hav e leveled off after years of
unprecedented increases. Cost -ef-
fective fertilizer usage also seems to
have reached a limit. In addition, as
previously noted, "soil-bank" crop-
lands have already been put back
into use, leaving little expandable
land in reserve. .
Then, too, environmental con-
cerns over older broad-spectrum in-
secticides and pesticides have
disrupted the war against insects
and other pests.
Plant geneticists, furthermore , see
no breakthroughs on the horizon in
the form of new super-yield crop
varieties. They are instead working as
fast as they can - on a treadmill, as it
were - just to maintain the constant
flow of new-enough varieties in-
tended only to keep ahead of all the
rats, molds. mildews and insects
which in themselves constantly mu-
tate in reaction to the man-made
poisons.
Most Critical Factor
Weather remains the single most
critical factor. however. in the world
food picture. Yet weather seems to
have become a highly unpredict-
able, variable element.
According to H. James Tippett,
chief of the gra in section of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture's Statis-
tical Reporting Service, the most
confounding feature of the South
Dakota drought. for example. has
been the irregular pattern of rain-
fall. Some areas have remained
bone-dry all year long but nearby
areas have received adequate rain-
fall and are either normal or above
average in production.
Although 53 of South Dakota's 67
counties have suffered major crop
losses, at least 12 other counties in
the western half of the state
have remained untouched by the
drought. In nine of those counties.
production is actually up.
How similar to a rather obscure
passage in one of the minor proph-
et s of the Old Testament: "And also
I have withholden the rain from
you, when there .were yet three
months to the harvest: and I caused
it to rain upon one city, and cau sed
it not to rain upon another city: one
piece was rained upon. and the
piece whereupon it rained not with-
ered. So two or three cit ies wan-
dered unto one city. to drink
wa ter ... yet HAVE YE NOT RE-
TURNED UNTO-ME. SAITH_THE LORD"
(Amos 4:7-8).
Worst Thing That Can Happen
to a Nation
Believe it or not. the moral condi-
tion of a country is directly linked to
its material well -being. Is it onl y a
coinci dence that as American an d
many other Western societies en-
gage more liberally in immoral ity,
sexua l perversion, "libera tion"
mo vements of every stripe. as well
as top-level and governmental cor-
ruption - they also find
afflicted with puzzling. frustrating
pr oblems in their agricultural sec-
tor s?
There is a link. There is a God.
and the moral condition of a nation
can cause that God to intervene di -
rectly - for a blessing or a cursing -
in the force s of na ture.
The Bible contains examples of
God changing weather patterns ei-
ther to bless a people or to punish
nations for their mounting national
sins. God warned the sin-l aden
Isr aelites that, if they cont inued in
their iniquities. he would withdraw
his blessings - such as rain - from
them: "Therefore the showers have
been Withheld. and the spring rain
ha s not come" (Jeremiah 3:3. RSV;
see also Jeremiah 14:22; Isaiah
5:6).
Continuously. God warned the
ancient Israelites of the reason for
protracted spell s of inclement
weather: "When heaven is shut up,
and there is no rain, because they
have sinned against thee . . ." (I
Kings 8:35; s ee a lso Amos
4:6-9).
God promised His people: "If ye
walk in my statutes, and keep my
commandments, and do them; then I
will give you rain in due season, and
the land shall yield her increase.
and the trees of the field shall yield
their fru it" (Le viticus 26:3A).
But God also gave a prophetic
warning. applicable in principle to
any proud nation that .God
and refuses to turn from Its nati onal
sins: " I will break the pride of your
power; and I will make your
as iron [endless day s of scorching
sun] . and your earth as brass
[drought -hardened eart h] . . . for
your land shall not yield her in-
cre ase" (ver ses 19-20).
In our resource-hungry world.
America prides itself on its agricul-
tural power on the international
scene. But how quickly that "pride"
could be broken by the one who
ultimat ely controls the powerful
force s of the weather. 0
IN BRIEF
(Continued from page 39)
Rhodesians to work out amongst
themselves, without interference
from the outside . a future const itu-
tion. Mr. Smith emphasized that he
" remained dedicated to the ideal of
doing all that he could to ensure
that Rhodesia remains a country in
which all , of whatever race or
color . can live and work and pros-
per together in peace, harmony
and stabil ity."
He emphasized that , despite the
incessant pressure upon him. his
government and the people. the
nation 's morale and confidence
was still high and, as in the past ,
whatever sacrifice would be neces-
sary would be made in order to se-
cure for all what should be the
desti ny of Rhodesia.
The Prime Minister emphasized
that he and his government had al-
ways stood for evolution as con-
trasted with revolution . Earlier I had
been asked on a-Rhodesian broad-
cast interview (and again the fol-
lowing day for Rhodes ian
television) whether we of The Plain
Truth were not i n fact " co n-
servatives." I had stated that the
answer would be in the affirmat ive
if one meant by " conservative"
one who believes in change , but
change without chaos and change
which would produce the greatest
amount of good for the greatest
number of people.
Even as the conference contin-
ues in Geneva, the act ivities of the
terrorists (trained and operating
from havens outside of Rhodesia
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and supplied with Chinese and
Russian weapons) have been in-
creasing. We yvere invited to visit a
guerr illa-infested " operat ional "
area, located with in a hundred
mi les of. Salisbury . We were part of
a contingent of radio. television
and pressmen from all parts of the
worl d who were briefed by Security
Forces in the presence of 18 dead
terrorists - killed only a few days
before - and brought to the Secu-
rity Forces command area at Ru-
sape for identification. The dead
bodies bore witness to the evils of
warfare and to the reality of bloody
guerrilla terrorist activity . Many of
the dead. pathetic though it may
be, wore black and red material
and a token root around the ir
necks , because the witch doctors
in Mozambique had told them, ac-
cording to t he Security Forces
spokesman . that the colors would
give them protection against Secu-
rity Forces' bullets. The terrorists
were clothed in denims, rather
than in uniforms. and weapons
seized with them were of Russian
or Chinese origin. All of the bodies
were identified as being those of
black Rhodesians. rather than of
infiltrators from neighboring na-
tions .
The Prime Minister and others
are, of course , concerned about
the fut ure of American pol itics and
policies in light of the recent elec-
tion of Jimmy Carter. It is this jour-
nalist's opinion that President-Elect
Carter will prove to be a great
pres ide nt , and , having been
trained as an Annapol is graduate ,
he will fully understand, better than
any president within recent times.
the importance of southern Afr ica
to the free world and the threat
that communism poses for the
area. And. being a Southerner by
birth and having lived there his en-
tire li fe, the president-elect will
know better than any other presi-
dent in recent times how trul y diffi-
cult it is to resolve all problems in a
multi -racial society , and how nec-
essary it is that adequate time be
allowed to bring about the changes
which all enlightened people would
opt for. 0
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Our Family Life Stinks!
Garner Ted Armstrong
SPEAKS OUT!
S
omething sinister is happening
to the institution of the family
and the home in the United
States and throughout the Western
worl d. The traditional structure of
the family - the basic buildi ng
block of a strong societ y - is bei ng
systematicall y destroyed! And we' d
bett er wak e u p t o th e con-
sequen ces!
The watchwords of the Amer ican
home used to be terms such as
permanence, stabili ty, security.
Father was the head of the home,
the breadwin ner, the wage earner.
Mother was at home caring for the
children and managing the house
- and happy and proud of her role.
But in this day of women 's " liber-
ation" and chang ing sex roles,
father, frequently, no longer as-
sumes his dominant position , one
upon whom the other famil y mem-
bers depend. Mother, in addition,
has left the home to seek " fulfill-
ment" through a job of her own .
" But what's wrong with that?"
many ask. " What difference does it
make? Who's gett ing hurt?"
Who's getti ng hurt? The chi ldren
are. The parents of futur e genera-
tions are. Look what' s happening .
Preschoolers often grow up without
the vital parental contact , gui dance
and exampl e so cri tical in thos e
early formative years. School-ag ed
children, returning to an empty
house after scho ol, are left to their
own devices. The result is some-
times shocking .
Not long ago an appall ing story
appeared in the Los Angel es Times
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which revealed that an estimated
30 ,000 children - primarily boys,
ages six to 17 - in the Los Angeles
area are being sexually abused by
the thousands of " gay" pervert s
with which the city teems .
An investi gation by the Los An-
geles Police Department revealed
that in nearly every instance, these
victimized kids came from a broken
or neg lected home, a home i n
which no strong father figure was
present , or a home where mom was
at wor k, or where the parents had
abandoned their parental responsi-
bilit ies. Many of these youngsters,
the report showed , are simply
starved for a little affection. And so
they fall easy prey to the seduction
of homosexual deviates who ply the
streets of L.A. looking for some sex-
ual titillation while offering " love" to
their victims.
Those children fortunate enough
to avoid being victimized in such
manner may instead become in-
volved in juvenile crime, which is on
the upswing nationwide.
Illegit imacy is also a growi ng
threat to the family institution. Na-
tionwi de over 13% of all children
are born to unmarr ied women, who
- in 50% of the cases - are still
teenagers. Nearly one million teen-
agers become pregnant every year.
In fact , it was recently reported that
having babies out of wedlock is ac-
tually becoming a status symbol
among teenage girls!
Skyrocketing divorce rates are
also assailing the family institution.
Couples are throwing in the towel
and calling it quits more than ever
before. One out of every three mar-
riages in the United States ulti-
mately ends in divorce. And again,
it's the children who suffer .
Talk with some of the police offi-
cers who have to deal with the con -
stant stream of juveni le offenders.
Ask the off icers about the family
backgrounds of these kids, and
they'll tell you about homes broken
by divorce, abusive or neglectful
parents , fathers who spend no time
with their children, mothers who are
rarely home.
Curiously, there are still those
who say nobody is gett ing hurt , that
the changes we're seeing relative to
home and family are positive!
We in the United States and the
nations of the Western world are
bringing a curse upon ourselves, and
many are too blind to see it. If we
don't chan ge our ways , turn around
and halt the disintegration of the
buildi ng blocks of family and home,
then the entire structure of our so-
ciety will come crashing down.
Many of the same mistakes that led
to the ultimate collapse of the once-
mi ghty Roman Empire are being re-
peated in America, Britain, and other
Western nations. The disintegration
of the home is only one of many
factors speeding us along the same
path . Write for our free book let The
Modern Romans for a com-
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TWOPROPHETS
(Continued ( rom page 16)
pantheon of Chris tendom. If we are
to believe John, Paul, Stephen , Pe-
ter, Luke, Moses, Isai ah , Jer emiah,
Daniel, et c., etc. were tellers of
truth, th en we must conclude that
Jesus not only pr eexisted, but was
indeed t he God of the entire Bibl e, the
Spokes man for the God fami ly, the
Word of th e Lord, the Al mighty God
Elohim who spo ke a nd the re was
light! This is not inte nde d to be a n
es ta blishment or defen se of thi s truth
- we have lit erature yo u ca n wri te for
th at does th at - but mer ely an ove r-
view resume so you will underst and
th e personal relat ion ship the holy
men of old had with the Son of God
whom we worship.
So whe n Jesus told the cri tics of
His day, " Before Abraha m was I
am" ! He was being ne ither gram-
ma tically nor factually incorrect.
When J esus trod th is eart h as the
ph ysical so n of ma n, He was not
on ly filled wi th compassion for th e
multitudes of Hi s generation, but re-
membered in t imate ly a nd wi t h
go d ly d epth of fondness all the spirits
ofj us t men made perfect in the many
genera tions that had preceded His
presence at Bethl eh em. Adam, Noah,
Ab ra ham, Moses were not j ust pro-
phet ica lly hoping about the comi ng
of th e Messiah in some future genera-
tion; th ey were direct recipients of
personal promises fro m th e One who
became our Sa vior. They were not
j us t empty, hist orical names Jesus
had to learn a bo ut as a boy in Naza -
re t h - to Him they were all old
fami lia r frie nds to whom He had
personally made ete rnal promises!
Old Familiar Friends
Besides t he powe r of t he Hol y
Spirit, th e me mories Jesus held of
t hese men a nd wome n of th e Bibl e
who had all died in faith, beli eving
in Him, must have sus tained and
ins pired Him to fulfill Hi s commis-
sio n per fectl y. J esus a nx io us ly
look ed forwa rd to th at day - ye t to
come - when He wi ll ca ll them
from th ei r graves to glory in His
Kingdom. The y may see m dis ta nt,
a lmost un-human characters to us,
but to J esus th ey were all old fami l-
iar frie nds , all of who m He loved
The PLAI N TRUTH February 1977
enoug h to di e for ! An d He did !
J esus is th e sa me yes terday, today
and forever - Hebrews 13: 8 - so
Jesus, by any othe r name, is j ust th e
sa me! And He had MANY names!
Moses kn ew Hi m - better tha n yo u
kn ow your closest friend - as the
God of Abrah am, Isaac and Jacob.
He kn ew Him as the Elohim-God
who told Moses all the necessary
detail s of th ose seven days of cre-
a tion . Moses knew Him as EI
Sha ddai - God Almighty - who
sus taine d wit h His great power th e
forefathe rs of Moses. Moses knew
Him as th e God of t he Covena nts -
YH VH, or Jehovah as some ca ll
Him - who made covenants wi th
Ad am, Noah and Abra ham before
He made His "Old Covenant" with
Is r a el. Moses foreknew Him as
Christ, his Savi or, the Son of God -
and he bel ieved, and di ed in faith in
Hi m ! J es us was no stranger to
Moses - He was his Friend!
Moses the Octogenarian
After fort y years of sheep tendi ng
on Si nai, being eighty years of age,
Moses was at last ready to perform
th e commissio n for which he had
be en born. A co mmission t ha t
wo uld take him ye t a nother forty
years to perform. The epic of t he
Exodus, th e givi ng of the Law, the
build ing of the nat ion Israel. the
writi ng of t he begi nni ngs of the
Bib le, th e esta blishment of the Levi-
tical priesthood and th e Tabernacle-
cum- Temple services in th e wi lder-
ness - a ll thi s and so much more lay
Personal from...
(Continued (rom page 20)
t he seventh angel bl ows the las t
tru mpe t ! Then it continues on into
th e messa ge of th e TWO WITNESSES
- also re ferred to and perha ps iden-
tifie d in Hagga i a nd Zechari ah . And
THEY SHALL PREACH A LAST WARN-
1NG TO THE WHOLE WORLD FOR 3Y2
YEARS!
And it is not un til a fter ALL THIS
th at th e t ime element picks back up
wit h the sounding of the sevent h
tru mpet in chapter 11: 15.
yet before Moses, the oc togenarian.
For Moses, life began at eig h ty!
Bu t Moses didn't volunteer for
the job. In fact , he was quit e a da-
mant in refusing it. He so pursued
hi s reluct ance to serve in th e ca pac-
ity th at means " Moses" to most of
us th at he argued with God to th e
point of making Him angry ! Moses
brought up ever y excus e to avoid
the commission God had for him.
H e reasone d, h e b e g g ed , h e
sq uir med, he suggested alternates,
he tol d God He' d picked the wrong
man - all to no avail as yo u an d I
we ll know. Bu t what a tal e that is!
Be sure to read it in th e next issue
of The Plain Truth. We a ll kn ow
Moses did the job - but the story of
how it all happen ed will make yo u
love that man Moses and that God
Jesu s so much more, yo u can' t af-
for d to miss it! 0
(To Be Conti nued)
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Therefore, MY CONCLUSION?
Could it be poss ible, after pro-
claimi ng the Gospel of THE KING-
DOM OF GOD, as we ll as Ezekiel's
warning to t he people of Israel. th at ,
beginning January 1972, when my
PRESENT CAMPAIGN of wa lki ng
throug h t he doors God said He
wo ul d open (Rev. 3:8) to KINGS and
many NATIONS of DIFFERENT LAN-
GUAGES wa s a t last ge tt ing un der
way, that it is the FULFILLMENT .OF
THISPROPHECY OF REVELATION IO?
To me it comes as a STARTLING,
AMAZING, EYE-OPENING NEW LIGHT
DIRECT FROM GOD!
THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT
PHASEOF GOD'S WORKTODAY!
A nd THE JOB I S GETTI NG
DONE! 0
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